Android-Eclipse Graphical Designer Exception

[gmseed]

Just downloaded and installed [16th Oct 2014] the Android-Eclipse bundle and worked my way through the sample:

Building a Simple User Interface ...

The <EditText> component creates an exception in the designer tool:

Exception raised during rendering: java.lang.System.arraycopy([CI[CII)V
Exception details are logged in Window > Show View > Error Log

and greys out the <LinearLayout>

I also get this exception if drag and drop a "Plain Text" object from the collapsible components tab "Text Fields".

Once this exception is raised then there is no graphical visualisation.

An <EditText> component is pretty basic and surprised to be getting such a runtime exception.

Here's is the layout .xml as specified in the above tutorial, which causes the graphical designer tool exception.

<LinearLayout ..."
xmlns:tools="..."
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
androidrientation="horizontal" >

<EditText android:id="@+id/edit_message"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:hint="@string/edit_message" />

</LinearLayout>

Graham

PS. Note that http links replaced with ... since new user.

 

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