title: Caused by: android.view.InflateException: Binary XML file line #7: Error inflating class fragment
body: <p>I am new to android programming and google map v2.I am trying to draw a route using google map v2 in my android app. The problem is , whenever i run the code it gives inflate exception. I am not being able to figure it out what is causing this problem. I am following this website 
  <a href="http://wptrafficanalyzer.in/blog/gps-and-google-map-in-android-applications-series/" rel="nofollow">http://wptrafficanalyzer.in/blog/gps-and-google-map-in-android-applications-series/</a>.
  Following are my code:</p>
  
  <pre><code>public class MainActivity extends FragmentActivity implements LocationListener {
  
  GoogleMap mGoogleMap;
  ArrayList&lt;LatLng&gt; mMarkerPoints;
  double mLatitude=0;
  double mLongitude=0;
  
  @Override
  protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
      super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
      setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
  
      // Getting Google Play availability status
      int status = GooglePlayServicesUtil.isGooglePlayServicesAvailable(getBaseContext());
  
      if(status!=ConnectionResult.SUCCESS){ // Google Play Services are not available
  
          int requestCode = 10;
          Dialog dialog = GooglePlayServicesUtil.getErrorDialog(status, this, requestCode);
          dialog.show();
  
      }else { // Google Play Services are available
  
          // Initializing 
          mMarkerPoints = new ArrayList&lt;LatLng&gt;();
  
          // Getting reference to SupportMapFragment of the activity_main
          SupportMapFragment fm = (SupportMapFragment)getSupportFragmentManager().findFragmentById(R.id.map);
  
          // Getting Map for the SupportMapFragment
          mGoogleMap = fm.getMap();
  
          // Enable MyLocation Button in the Map
          mGoogleMap.setMyLocationEnabled(true);
  
  
          // Getting LocationManager object from System Service LOCATION_SERVICE
          LocationManager locationManager = (LocationManager) getSystemService(LOCATION_SERVICE);
  
          // Creating a criteria object to retrieve provider
          Criteria criteria = new Criteria();
  
          // Getting the name of the best provider
          String provider = locationManager.getBestProvider(criteria, true);
  
          // Getting Current Location From GPS
          Location location = locationManager.getLastKnownLocation(provider);
  
          if(location!=null){
              onLocationChanged(location);
          }
  
          locationManager.requestLocationUpdates(provider, 20000, 0, this);           
  
          // Setting onclick event listener for the map
          mGoogleMap.setOnMapClickListener(new OnMapClickListener() {
  
              @Override
              public void onMapClick(LatLng point) {
  
                  // Already map contain destination location 
                  if(mMarkerPoints.size()&gt;1){
  
                      FragmentManager fm = getSupportFragmentManager();   
                      mMarkerPoints.clear();
                      mGoogleMap.clear();
                      LatLng startPoint = new LatLng(mLatitude, mLongitude);
                      drawMarker(startPoint);
                  }
  
                  drawMarker(point);
  
                  // Checks, whether start and end locations are captured
                  if(mMarkerPoints.size() &gt;= 2){                  
                      LatLng origin = mMarkerPoints.get(0);
                      LatLng dest = mMarkerPoints.get(1);
  
                      // Getting URL to the Google Directions API
                      String url = getDirectionsUrl(origin, dest);                
  
                      DownloadTask downloadTask = new DownloadTask();
  
                      // Start downloading json data from Google Directions API
                      downloadTask.execute(url);
                  }                   
              }
          });         
      }       
  }
  
  private String getDirectionsUrl(LatLng origin,LatLng dest){
  
      // Origin of route
      String str_origin = "origin="+origin.latitude+","+origin.longitude;
  
      // Destination of route
      String str_dest = "destination="+dest.latitude+","+dest.longitude;          
  
      // Sensor enabled
      String sensor = "sensor=false";         
  
      // Building the parameters to the web service
      String parameters = str_origin+"&amp;"+str_dest+"&amp;"+sensor;
  
      // Output format
      String output = "json";
  
      // Building the url to the web service
      String url = "https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/directions/"+output+"?"+parameters;      
  
      return url;
  }
  
  /** A method to download json data from url */
  private String downloadUrl(String strUrl) throws IOException{
      String data = "";
      InputStream iStream = null;
      HttpURLConnection urlConnection = null;
      try{
              URL url = new URL(strUrl);
  
              // Creating an http connection to communicate with url 
              urlConnection = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection();
  
              // Connecting to url 
              urlConnection.connect();
  
              // Reading data from url 
              iStream = urlConnection.getInputStream();
  
              BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(iStream));
  
              StringBuffer sb  = new StringBuffer();
  
              String line = "";
              while( ( line = br.readLine())  != null){
                      sb.append(line);
              }
  
              data = sb.toString();
  
              br.close();
  
      }catch(Exception e){
              Log.d("Exception while downloading url", e.toString());
      }finally{
              iStream.close();
              urlConnection.disconnect();
      }
      return data;
   }
  
  
  
  /** A class to download data from Google Directions URL */
  private class DownloadTask extends AsyncTask&lt;String, Void, String&gt;{         
  
      // Downloading data in non-ui thread
      @Override
      protected String doInBackground(String... url) {
  
          // For storing data from web service
          String data = "";
  
          try{
              // Fetching the data from web service
              data = downloadUrl(url[0]);
          }catch(Exception e){
              Log.d("Background Task",e.toString());
          }
          return data;        
      }
  
      // Executes in UI thread, after the execution of
      // doInBackground()
      @Override
      protected void onPostExecute(String result) {           
          super.onPostExecute(result);            
  
          ParserTask parserTask = new ParserTask();
  
          // Invokes the thread for parsing the JSON data
          parserTask.execute(result);
  
      }       
  }
  
  /** A class to parse the Google Directions in JSON format */
  private class ParserTask extends AsyncTask&lt;String, Integer, List&lt;List&lt;HashMap&lt;String,String&gt;&gt;&gt; &gt;{
  
      // Parsing the data in non-ui thread        
      @Override
      protected List&lt;List&lt;HashMap&lt;String, String&gt;&gt;&gt; doInBackground(String... jsonData) {
  
          JSONObject jObject; 
          List&lt;List&lt;HashMap&lt;String, String&gt;&gt;&gt; routes = null;                     
  
          try{
              jObject = new JSONObject(jsonData[0]);
              DirectionsJSONParser parser = new DirectionsJSONParser();
  
              // Starts parsing data
              routes = parser.parse(jObject);    
          }catch(Exception e){
              e.printStackTrace();
          }
          return routes;
      }
  
      // Executes in UI thread, after the parsing process
      @Override
      protected void onPostExecute(List&lt;List&lt;HashMap&lt;String, String&gt;&gt;&gt; result) {
          ArrayList&lt;LatLng&gt; points = null;
          PolylineOptions lineOptions = null;
  
          // Traversing through all the routes
          for(int i=0;i&lt;result.size();i++){
              points = new ArrayList&lt;LatLng&gt;();
              lineOptions = new PolylineOptions();
  
              // Fetching i-th route
              List&lt;HashMap&lt;String, String&gt;&gt; path = result.get(i);
  
              // Fetching all the points in i-th route
              for(int j=0;j&lt;path.size();j++){
                  HashMap&lt;String,String&gt; point = path.get(j);                 
  
                  double lat = Double.parseDouble(point.get("lat"));
                  double lng = Double.parseDouble(point.get("lng"));
                  LatLng position = new LatLng(lat, lng); 
  
                  points.add(position);                       
              }
  
              // Adding all the points in the route to LineOptions
              lineOptions.addAll(points);
              lineOptions.width(2);
              lineOptions.color(Color.RED);   
  
          }
  
          // Drawing polyline in the Google Map for the i-th route
          mGoogleMap.addPolyline(lineOptions);                            
      }           
  }   
  
  
  @Override
  public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
      // Inflate the menu; this adds items to the action bar if it is present.
      getMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.main, menu);
      return true;
  }
  
  private void drawMarker(LatLng point){
      mMarkerPoints.add(point);
  
      // Creating MarkerOptions
      MarkerOptions options = new MarkerOptions();
  
      // Setting the position of the marker
      options.position(point);
  
      /** 
       * For the start location, the color of marker is GREEN and
       * for the end location, the color of marker is RED.
       */
      if(mMarkerPoints.size()==1){
          options.icon(BitmapDescriptorFactory.defaultMarker(BitmapDescriptorFactory.HUE_GREEN));
      }else if(mMarkerPoints.size()==2){
          options.icon(BitmapDescriptorFactory.defaultMarker(BitmapDescriptorFactory.HUE_RED));
      }
  
      // Add new marker to the Google Map Android API V2
      mGoogleMap.addMarker(options);      
  }
  
  @Override
  public void onLocationChanged(Location location) {
      // Draw the marker, if destination location is not set
      if(mMarkerPoints.size() &lt; 2){
  
          mLatitude = location.getLatitude();
          mLongitude = location.getLongitude();
          LatLng point = new LatLng(mLatitude, mLongitude);
  
          mGoogleMap.moveCamera(CameraUpdateFactory.newLatLng(point));
          mGoogleMap.animateCamera(CameraUpdateFactory.zoomTo(12));        
  
          drawMarker(point);          
      } 
  
  }
  
  @Override
  public void onProviderDisabled(String provider) {
      // TODO Auto-generated method stub      
  }
  
  @Override
  public void onProviderEnabled(String provider) {
      // TODO Auto-generated method stub      
  }
  
  @Override
  public void onStatusChanged(String provider, int status, Bundle extras) {
      // TODO Auto-generated method stub      
  }   
  }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Below is my xml file:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
  xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
  android:layout_width="match_parent"
  android:layout_height="match_parent"    
  tools:context=".MainActivity" &gt;
  
  &lt;fragment
      android:id="@+id/map"
      android:layout_width="wrap_content"
      android:layout_height="wrap_content"        
      class="com.google.android.gms.maps.SupportMapFragment" /&gt;
  
   &lt;/RelativeLayout&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>LOGCAT errors:</p>
  
  <pre><code>  10-21 11:14:31.220: I/ActivityThread(2739): Switching default density from 160 to 120
      10-21 11:14:31.640: D/AndroidRuntime(2739): Shutting down VM
      10-21 11:14:31.650: W/dalvikvm(2739): threadid=1: thread exiting with uncaught exception (group=0x9ceab648)
      10-21 11:14:31.660: E/AndroidRuntime(2739): FATAL EXCEPTION: main
      10-21 11:14:31.660: E/AndroidRuntime(2739): java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to start activity         ComponentInfo{in.wptrafficanalyzer.locationroutemylocationv2/in.wptrafficanalyzer.locationroutemylocationv2.MainActivity}: android.view.InflateException: Binary XML file line #7: Error inflating class fragment
  10-21 11:14:31.660: E/AndroidRuntime(2739):     at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2211)
  10-21 11:14:31.660: E/AndroidRuntime(2739):     at android.app.ActivityThread.handleLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2261)
  10-21 11:14:31.660: E/AndroidRuntime(2739):     at android.app.ActivityThread.access$600(ActivityThread.java:141)
  10-21 11:14:31.660: E/AndroidRuntime(2739):     at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:1256)
  10-21 11:14:31.660: E/AndroidRuntime(2739):     at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99)
  10-21 11:14:31.660: E/AndroidRuntime(2739):     at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:137)
  10-21 11:14:31.660: E/AndroidRuntime(2739):     at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:5103)
  10-21 11:14:31.660: E/AndroidRuntime(2739):     at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
  10-21 11:14:31.660: E/AndroidRuntime(2739):     at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:525)
  10-21 11:14:31.660: E/AndroidRuntime(2739):     at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:737)
  10-21 11:14:31.660: E/AndroidRuntime(2739):     at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:553)
  10-21 11:14:31.660: E/AndroidRuntime(2739):     at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)
  10-21 11:14:31.660: E/AndroidRuntime(2739): Caused by: android.view.InflateException: Binary XML file line #7: Error inflating class fragment
  10-21 11:14:31.660: E/AndroidRuntime(2739):     at android.view.LayoutInflater.createViewFromTag(LayoutInflater.java:713)
  10-21 11:14:31.660: E/AndroidRuntime(2739):     at android.view.LayoutInflater.rInflate(LayoutInflater.java:755)
  10-21 11:14:31.660: E/AndroidRuntime(2739):     at android.view.LayoutInflater.inflate(LayoutInflater.java:492)
  10-21 11:14:31.660: E/AndroidRuntime(2739):     at android.view.LayoutInflater.inflate(LayoutInflater.java:397)
  10-21 11:14:31.660: E/AndroidRuntime(2739):     at android.view.LayoutInflater.inflate(LayoutInflater.java:353)
  10-21 11:14:31.660: E/AndroidRuntime(2739):     at com.android.internal.policy.impl.PhoneWindow.setContentView(PhoneWindow.java:267)
  10-21 11:14:31.660: E/AndroidRuntime(2739):     at android.app.Activity.setContentView(Activity.java:1895)
  10-21 11:14:31.660: E/AndroidRuntime(2739):     at in.wptrafficanalyzer.locationroutemylocationv2.MainActivity.onCreate(MainActivity.java:50)
  10-21 11:14:31.660: E/AndroidRuntime(2739):     at android.app.Activity.performCreate(Activity.java:5133)
  10-21 11:14:31.660: E/AndroidRuntime(2739):     at android.app.Instrumentation.callActivityOnCreate(Instrumentation.java:1087)
  10-21 11:14:31.660: E/AndroidRuntime(2739):     at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2175)
  10-21 11:14:31.660: E/AndroidRuntime(2739):     ... 11 more
  10-21 11:14:31.660: E/AndroidRuntime(2739): Caused by: java.lang.IllegalStateException: The meta-data tag in your app's AndroidManifest.xml does not have the right value.  Expected 5089000 but found 0.  You must have the following declaration within the &lt;application&gt; element:     &lt;meta-data android:name="com.google.android.gms.version" android:value="@integer/google_play_services_version" /&gt;
  10-21 11:14:31.660: E/AndroidRuntime(2739):     at com.google.android.gms.common.GooglePlayServicesUtil.A(Unknown Source)
  10-21 11:14:31.660: E/AndroidRuntime(2739):     at com.google.android.gms.common.GooglePlayServicesUtil.isGooglePlayServicesAvailable(Unknown Source)
  10-21 11:14:31.660: E/AndroidRuntime(2739):     at com.google.android.gms.maps.internal.u.I(Unknown Source)
  10-21 11:14:31.660: E/AndroidRuntime(2739):     at com.google.android.gms.maps.internal.u.H(Unknown Source)
  10-21 11:14:31.660: E/AndroidRuntime(2739):     at com.google.android.gms.maps.MapsInitializer.initialize(Unknown Source)
  10-21 11:14:31.660: E/AndroidRuntime(2739):     at com.google.android.gms.maps.SupportMapFragment$b.jz(Unknown Source)
  10-21 11:14:31.660: E/AndroidRuntime(2739):     at com.google.android.gms.maps.SupportMapFragment$b.a(Unknown Source)
  10-21 11:14:31.660: E/AndroidRuntime(2739):     at com.google.android.gms.dynamic.a.a(Unknown Source)
  10-21 11:14:31.660: E/AndroidRuntime(2739):     at com.google.android.gms.dynamic.a.onInflate(Unknown Source)
  10-21 11:14:31.660: E/AndroidRuntime(2739):     at com.google.android.gms.maps.SupportMapFragment.onInflate(Unknown Source)
  10-21 11:14:31.660: E/AndroidRuntime(2739):     at android.support.v4.app.FragmentActivity.onCreateView(FragmentActivity.java:279)
  10-21 11:14:31.660: E/AndroidRuntime(2739):     at android.view.LayoutInflater.createViewFromTag(LayoutInflater.java:685)
  10-21 11:14:31.660: E/AndroidRuntime(2739):     ... 21 more
  10-21 11:19:32.260: I/Process(2739): Sending signal. PID: 2739 SIG: 9
  </code></pre>