title: Unable to start activity ComponentInfo{...}: android.content.res.Resources$NotFoundException: Resource ID
body: <p>I'm new to Android application development and I recently downloaded &amp; installed Android 3.1 platform (API 12).</p>
  
  <p>I'm going through the tutorial and I'm trying to run the 'Hello world' program (<a href="http://developer.android.com/resources/tutorials/hello-world.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://developer.android.com/resources/tutorials/hello-world.html</a>)</p>
  
  <p>But it doesn't work, I end up seeing the locked screen on the emulator. When I try to unlock it, it shows the:</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>"Force close" </p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>error message &amp; button.</p>
  
  <p>I went through this forum for answers and I checked the LogCat output. I found an exception there but I'm not sure how to fix the issue. Can some one please help me out?</p>
  
  <p><strong>Exception stack trace:</strong></p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>WARN/ResourceType(162): Failure getting entry for 0x7f030015 (t=2 e=21) in package 0 (error -75)
    DEBUG/AndroidRuntime(162): Shutting down VM
    WARN/dalvikvm(162): threadid=1: thread exiting with uncaught exception (group=0x40014760)
    ERROR/AndroidRuntime(162): FATAL EXCEPTION: main
    ERROR/AndroidRuntime(162): java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to start activity ComponentInfo{com.android.launcher/com.android.launcher2.Launcher}: android.content.res.Resources$NotFoundException: Resource ID #0x7f030015
    ERROR/AndroidRuntime(162):     at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:1748)
    ERROR/AndroidRuntime(162):     at android.app.ActivityThread.handleLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:1764)
    ERROR/AndroidRuntime(162):     at android.app.ActivityThread.access$1500(ActivityThread.java:122)
    ERROR/AndroidRuntime(162):     at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:1002)
    ERROR/AndroidRuntime(162):     at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99)
    ERROR/AndroidRuntime(162):     at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:132)
    ERROR/AndroidRuntime(162):     at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:4025)
    ERROR/AndroidRuntime(162):     at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
    ERROR/AndroidRuntime(162):     at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:491)
    ERROR/AndroidRuntime(162):     at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:841)
    ERROR/AndroidRuntime(162):     at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:599)
    ERROR/AndroidRuntime(162):     at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)
    ERROR/AndroidRuntime(162): Caused by: android.content.res.Resources$NotFoundException: Resource ID #0x7f030015
    ERROR/AndroidRuntime(162):     at android.content.res.Resources.getValue(Resources.java:1014)
    ERROR/AndroidRuntime(162):     at android.content.res.Resources.loadXmlResourceParser(Resources.java:2039)
    ERROR/AndroidRuntime(162):     at android.content.res.Resources.getLayout(Resources.java:853)
    ERROR/AndroidRuntime(162):     at android.view.LayoutInflater.inflate(LayoutInflater.java:389)
    ERROR/AndroidRuntime(162):     at android.view.LayoutInflater.inflate(LayoutInflater.java:347)
    ERROR/AndroidRuntime(162):     at com.android.internal.policy.impl.PhoneWindow.setContentView(PhoneWindow.java:223)
    ERROR/AndroidRuntime(162):     at android.app.Activity.setContentView(Activity.java:1780)
    ERROR/AndroidRuntime(162):     at com.android.launcher2.Launcher.onCreate(Launcher.java:336)
    ERROR/AndroidRuntime(162):     at android.app.Instrumentation.callActivityOnCreate(Instrumentation.java:1048)
    ERROR/AndroidRuntime(162):     at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:1712)
    ERROR/AndroidRuntime(162):     ... 11 more
    WARN/dalvikvm(162): threadid=3: spin on suspend #1 threadid=10 (pcf=0)</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p><strong>Hello World program:</strong></p>
  
  <pre><code>package com.example.helloandroid;
  
  import android.app.Activity;
  import android.os.Bundle;
  import android.widget.TextView;
  
  public class HelloAndroid extends Activity {
      /** Called when the activity is first created. */
      @Override
      public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
          super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
          TextView tv = new TextView(this);
          tv.setText(R.string.hello);
          setContentView(tv);
      }
  }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p><strong>layout/main.xml:</strong></p>
  
  <pre><code>&amp;lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?&amp;gt;
  &amp;lt;TextView xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
      android:id="@+id/textview"
      android:layout_width="fill_parent"
      android:layout_height="fill_parent"
      android:text="@string/hello" /&amp;gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Thank you
  Keerthi</p>