Incomplete android appcompat fragmentsupport: missing resource divider_horizontal_bright_opaque.9.png

Issue

When I run a wizard generated andorid app on Android 2.2 (Froyo) I get a runtime exception telling me that

resource divider_horizontal_bright_opaque.9.png is not found

android.view.InflateException: Binary XML file line #5: Error inflating class

Caused by: java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException

Caused by: android.content.res.Resources$NotFoundException:
File res/drawable-mdpi/divider_horizontal_bright_opaque.9.png from drawable resource ID #0x0

What I expected:

• the missing resource divider_horizontal_bright_opaque.9.png
• is referenced by the non-usergenerated-code
• which should be included in the library/aar com.android.support:support-v4:19.1.0 or com.android.support:appcompat-v7:19.1.0
• which should be included into the app by the gradle build.

Does anybody know how to fix this?

How to reproduce:

Using android studio 0.5.9 wizard I created an Android Application with these settings

• minimum required sdk api8: Android 2.2 (Froyo)
• target sdk: api19: Android 4.4 (KitKat)
• compile with: api19: Android 4.4 (KitKat)
• Theme : Holo Light with Dark Action Bar
• selected checkboxes Create Activity [X], Fragments [X], ActionBar[X]
• Activity-Type: Master/Detail Flow

This is the gradle build fils

apply plugin: 'android'

android {
    compileSdkVersion 19
    buildToolsVersion "19.1.0"

    defaultConfig {
        packageName "com.example.tests.android.gui"
        minSdkVersion 8
        targetSdkVersion 19
        versionCode 1
        versionName "1.0"
    }
    buildTypes {
        release {
            runProguard false
            proguardFiles getDefaultProguardFile('proguard-android.txt'), 'proguard-rules.pro'
        }
    }
}


dependencies {
    compile fileTree(dir: 'libs', include: ['*.jar'])
    compile 'com.android.support:appcompat-v7:19.1.0'
    compile 'com.android.support:support-v4:19.1.0'
}

the build was made with

• gradle 1.10

Solution

After creating a minimum android.support.v4.app.ListFragment app with no dependency to com.android.support:appcompat-v7 i still got the same android.content.res.Resources$NotFoundException. So the problem must be related to com.android.support:support-v4 - FragmentSupport that references

• res/drawable-mdpi/divider_horizontal_bright_opaque.9.png and
• res/drawable-hdpi/divider_horizontal_bright_opaque.9.png

On my machine i found

under ".../platforms/android-7/data/res/drawable-mdpi/divider_horizontal_bright_opaque.9.png"

the missing file and added it to my app.

After that the v4.app.ListFragment app is working

[Update] the divider_horizontal_bright_opaque.9.png must have become some global android resource, because a second android app that uses the same libs doesn-t crash any more after the first app with the missing files was installed.

Answered By - k3b