title: is there a way to disable hardware acceleration only for android 4.0.3?
body: <p>I have recently stumbled upon an issue with android 4.0.3, where Im getting the following Exception as soon as the application starts (on other android versions it works fine):</p>
  
  <pre><code>java.lang.NullPointerException
  at android.view.GLES20RecordingCanvas.drawPatch(GLES20RecordingCanvas.java:97)
  at android.graphics.NinePatch.draw(NinePatch.java:125)
  at android.graphics.drawable.NinePatchDrawable.draw(NinePatchDrawable.java:189)
  at android.widget.ImageView.onDraw(ImageView.java:892)
  at android.view.View.draw(View.java:10978)
  at android.view.ViewGroup.drawChild(ViewGroup.java:2887)
  at android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchDraw(ViewGroup.java:2489)
  at android.view.ViewGroup.drawChild(ViewGroup.java:2885)
  at android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchDraw(ViewGroup.java:2489)
  at android.view.View.getDisplayList(View.java:10415)
  at android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchGetDisplayList(ViewGroup.java:2597)
  at android.view.View.getDisplayList(View.java:10380)
  at android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchGetDisplayList(ViewGroup.java:2597)
  at android.view.View.getDisplayList(View.java:10380)
  at android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchGetDisplayList(ViewGroup.java:2597)
  at android.view.View.getDisplayList(View.java:10380)
  at android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchGetDisplayList(ViewGroup.java:2597)
  at android.view.View.getDisplayList(View.java:10380)
  at android.view.HardwareRenderer$GlRenderer.draw(HardwareRenderer.java:842)
  at android.view.ViewRootImpl.draw(ViewRootImpl.java:1910)
  at android.view.ViewRootImpl.performTraversals(ViewRootImpl.java:1634)
  at android.view.ViewRootImpl.handleMessage(ViewRootImpl.java:2442)
  at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99)
  at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:137)
  at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:4424)
  at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
  at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:511)
  at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:784)
  at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:551)
  at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>This is related to having hardware acceleration enabled, as soon as I disable it on the manifest the application starts working just fine. </p>
  
  <p>By doing a search I found a <a href="http://logs.nslu2-linux.org/livelogs/android-dev/android-dev.20120316.txt" rel="noreferrer">log</a> (inside that doc search for "drawPatch") on some conversation of Romain Guy, where he discuss a little bit of what could be causing this, although there is no workaround or fix proposed, I wonder if I should disable hardware acceleration only for this version of android, or if there is a workaround for it?</p>
  
  <p>Thanks for your time.</p>