title: ActionBarSherlock & ShareActionProvider cause InflateException
body: <p>I'm a building an app that uses ActionBarSherlock and it's ShareActionProvider for generating an Intent to other apps. I created the item based on the sample code from the library's github page; at first, I worked flawlessly. However, a day after that, it simply stopped working. If I remove the code regarding the menu inflation the activity loads normally, otherwise it crashes with the following exception:</p>
  
  <pre><code>05-31 22:28:41.200: E/AndroidRuntime(15874): FATAL EXCEPTION: main
  05-31 22:28:41.200: E/AndroidRuntime(15874): android.view.InflateException: Binary XML file line #26: Error inflating class &lt;unknown&gt;
  05-31 22:28:41.200: E/AndroidRuntime(15874):    at android.view.LayoutInflater.createView(LayoutInflater.java:613)
  05-31 22:28:41.200: E/AndroidRuntime(15874):    at com.android.internal.policy.impl.PhoneLayoutInflater.onCreateView(PhoneLayoutInflater.java:56)
  05-31 22:28:41.200: E/AndroidRuntime(15874):    at android.view.LayoutInflater.onCreateView(LayoutInflater.java:660)
  05-31 22:28:41.200: E/AndroidRuntime(15874):    at android.view.LayoutInflater.createViewFromTag(LayoutInflater.java:685)
  05-31 22:28:41.200: E/AndroidRuntime(15874):    at android.view.LayoutInflater.rInflate(LayoutInflater.java:746)
  05-31 22:28:41.200: E/AndroidRuntime(15874):    at android.view.LayoutInflater.inflate(LayoutInflater.java:489)
  05-31 22:28:41.200: E/AndroidRuntime(15874):    at android.view.LayoutInflater.inflate(LayoutInflater.java:396)
  05-31 22:28:41.200: E/AndroidRuntime(15874):    at com.actionbarsherlock.widget.ActivityChooserView.&lt;init&gt;(ActivityChooserView.java:229)
  05-31 22:28:41.200: E/AndroidRuntime(15874):    at com.actionbarsherlock.widget.ActivityChooserView.&lt;init&gt;(ActivityChooserView.java:202)
  05-31 22:28:41.200: E/AndroidRuntime(15874):    at com.actionbarsherlock.widget.ActivityChooserView.&lt;init&gt;(ActivityChooserView.java:192)
  05-31 22:28:41.200: E/AndroidRuntime(15874):    at com.actionbarsherlock.widget.ShareActionProvider.onCreateActionView(ShareActionProvider.java:164)
  05-31 22:28:41.200: E/AndroidRuntime(15874):    at com.actionbarsherlock.internal.view.ActionProviderWrapper.onCreateActionView(ActionProviderWrapper.java:23)
  05-31 22:28:41.200: E/AndroidRuntime(15874):    at android.view.ActionProvider.onCreateActionView(ActionProvider.java:98)
  05-31 22:28:41.200: E/AndroidRuntime(15874):    at com.android.internal.view.menu.MenuItemImpl.getActionView(MenuItemImpl.java:580)
  05-31 22:28:41.200: E/AndroidRuntime(15874):    at com.android.internal.view.menu.ActionMenuPresenter.getItemView(ActionMenuPresenter.java:235)
  05-31 22:28:41.200: E/AndroidRuntime(15874):    at com.android.internal.view.menu.ActionMenuPresenter.flagActionItems(ActionMenuPresenter.java:513)
  05-31 22:28:41.200: E/AndroidRuntime(15874):    at com.android.internal.view.menu.MenuBuilder.flagActionItems(MenuBuilder.java:1048)
  05-31 22:28:41.200: E/AndroidRuntime(15874):    at com.android.internal.view.menu.BaseMenuPresenter.updateMenuView(BaseMenuPresenter.java:91)
  05-31 22:28:41.200: E/AndroidRuntime(15874):    at com.android.internal.view.menu.ActionMenuPresenter.updateMenuView(ActionMenuPresenter.java:268)
  05-31 22:28:41.200: E/AndroidRuntime(15874):    at com.android.internal.view.menu.MenuBuilder.dispatchPresenterUpdate(MenuBuilder.java:244)
  05-31 22:28:41.200: E/AndroidRuntime(15874):    at com.android.internal.view.menu.MenuBuilder.onItemsChanged(MenuBuilder.java:946)
  05-31 22:28:41.200: E/AndroidRuntime(15874):    at com.android.internal.view.menu.MenuBuilder.startDispatchingItemsChanged(MenuBuilder.java:969)
  05-31 22:28:41.200: E/AndroidRuntime(15874):    at com.android.internal.policy.impl.PhoneWindow.preparePanel(PhoneWindow.java:488)
  05-31 22:28:41.200: E/AndroidRuntime(15874):    at com.android.internal.policy.impl.PhoneWindow.invalidatePanelMenu(PhoneWindow.java:819)
  05-31 22:28:41.200: E/AndroidRuntime(15874):    at com.android.internal.policy.impl.PhoneWindow$1.run(PhoneWindow.java:3148)
  05-31 22:28:41.200: E/AndroidRuntime(15874):    at android.os.Handler.handleCallback(Handler.java:615)
  05-31 22:28:41.200: E/AndroidRuntime(15874):    at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:92)
  05-31 22:28:41.200: E/AndroidRuntime(15874):    at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:137)
  05-31 22:28:41.200: E/AndroidRuntime(15874):    at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:4898)
  05-31 22:28:41.200: E/AndroidRuntime(15874):    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
  05-31 22:28:41.200: E/AndroidRuntime(15874):    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:511)
  05-31 22:28:41.200: E/AndroidRuntime(15874):    at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:1006)
  05-31 22:28:41.200: E/AndroidRuntime(15874):    at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:773)
  05-31 22:28:41.200: E/AndroidRuntime(15874):    at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)
  05-31 22:28:41.200: E/AndroidRuntime(15874): Caused by: java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
  05-31 22:28:41.200: E/AndroidRuntime(15874):    at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.constructNative(Native Method)
  05-31 22:28:41.200: E/AndroidRuntime(15874):    at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:417)
  05-31 22:28:41.200: E/AndroidRuntime(15874):    at android.view.LayoutInflater.createView(LayoutInflater.java:587)
  05-31 22:28:41.200: E/AndroidRuntime(15874):    ... 33 more
  05-31 22:28:41.200: E/AndroidRuntime(15874): Caused by: android.content.res.Resources$NotFoundException: Resource is not a Drawable (color or path): TypedValue{t=0x2/d=0x7f01000f a=-1}
  05-31 22:28:41.200: E/AndroidRuntime(15874):    at android.content.res.Resources.loadDrawable(Resources.java:1925)
  05-31 22:28:41.200: E/AndroidRuntime(15874):    at android.content.res.TypedArray.getDrawable(TypedArray.java:601)
  05-31 22:28:41.200: E/AndroidRuntime(15874):    at android.view.View.&lt;init&gt;(View.java:3436)
  05-31 22:28:41.200: E/AndroidRuntime(15874):    at android.view.ViewGroup.&lt;init&gt;(ViewGroup.java:432)
  05-31 22:28:41.200: E/AndroidRuntime(15874):    at android.widget.FrameLayout.&lt;init&gt;(FrameLayout.java:101)
  05-31 22:28:41.200: E/AndroidRuntime(15874):    at android.widget.FrameLayout.&lt;init&gt;(FrameLayout.java:97)
  05-31 22:28:41.200: E/AndroidRuntime(15874):    ... 36 more
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>As you can see, there is nothing pointing to my code; I tracked the issue down to the first line of this method:</p>
  
  <pre><code>public class NewsDetailActivity extends SherlockFragmentActivity{
     .
     .
     .
     @Override
     public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
         getSupportMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.news_detail, menu);
         //mShareActionProvider = (ShareActionProvider) menu.findItem(R.id.share).getActionProvider();
         //mShareActionProvider.setShareHistoryFileName(ShareActionProvider.DEFAULT_SHARE_HISTORY_FILE_NAME);
         return super.onCreateOptionsMenu(menu);
     }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>If that line is removed, the activity works just fine. The menu layout is shown below:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?&gt;
  &lt;menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" &gt;
      &lt;item
      android:id="@+id/share"
      android:title="@string/share"
      android:showAsAction="ifRoom"
      android:actionProviderClass="com.actionbarsherlock.widget.ShareActionProvider"/&gt;
  &lt;/menu&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I have been unable to resolved the issue and haven't been able to find someone with a similar issue. However, I did read in the library's wiki that Themes might be the problem, the following is the theme for my app and actionbar, I have changed it to Theme.Sherlock.Light and many others to no avail.</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;resources xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"&gt;
  &lt;style name="AppBaseTheme" parent="Theme.Sherlock"&gt;
      &lt;item name="actionBarStyle"&gt;@style/ActionBar&lt;/item&gt;
      &lt;item name="android:actionBarStyle"&gt;@style/ActionBar&lt;/item&gt;
  &lt;/style&gt;
  
  &lt;style name="ActionBar" parent="@style/Widget.Sherlock.ActionBar"&gt;
      &lt;item name="android:textColor"&gt;#ffffff&lt;/item&gt;
      &lt;item name="android:textStyle"&gt;bold&lt;/item&gt;&gt;
      &lt;item name="android:background"&gt;@drawable/background_actionbar&lt;/item&gt;
      &lt;item name="android:backgroundStacked"&gt;@drawable/background_actionbar&lt;/item&gt;
      &lt;item name="android:backgroundSplit"&gt;@drawable/background_actionbar&lt;/item&gt;
  &lt;/style&gt;
  &lt;/resources&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I am using the latest version of the library. I hope someone could help me out! Thanks!</p>
  
  <p>EDIT: I haven't been able to solve the problem, but I tracked the Exception down to this XML in ActionBarSherlock (layout/abs_activity_chooser_view.xml):</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;com.actionbarsherlock.internal.widget.IcsLinearLayout 
  xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
      android:id="@+id/abs__activity_chooser_view_content"
      android:layout_width="wrap_content"
      android:layout_height="wrap_content"
      android:layout_gravity="center"
      style="?attr/activityChooserViewStyle"&gt;
  
      &lt;FrameLayout
          android:id="@+id/abs__expand_activities_button"
          android:layout_width="wrap_content"
          android:layout_height="fill_parent"
          android:layout_gravity="center"
          android:focusable="true"
          android:addStatesFromChildren="true"
          android:background="?attr/actionBarItemBackground"&gt;
  
          &lt;ImageView android:id="@+id/abs__image"
              android:layout_width="56dip"
              android:layout_height="36dip"
              android:layout_gravity="center"
              android:paddingTop="2dip"
              android:paddingBottom="2dip"
              android:paddingLeft="12dip"
              android:paddingRight="12dip"
              android:scaleType="fitCenter"
              android:adjustViewBounds="true" /&gt;
  
      &lt;/FrameLayout&gt;
  
      &lt;FrameLayout
          android:id="@+id/abs__default_activity_button"
          android:layout_width="wrap_content"
          android:layout_height="fill_parent"
          android:layout_gravity="center"
          android:focusable="true"
          android:addStatesFromChildren="true"
          android:background="?attr/actionBarItemBackground"&gt;
  
          &lt;ImageView android:id="@+id/abs__image"
              android:layout_width="56dip"
              android:layout_height="36dip"
              android:layout_gravity="center"
              android:paddingTop="2dip"
              android:paddingBottom="2dip"
              android:paddingLeft="12dip"
              android:paddingRight="12dip"
              android:scaleType="fitCenter"
              android:adjustViewBounds="true" /&gt;
  
      &lt;/FrameLayout&gt;
  
  &lt;/com.actionbarsherlock.internal.widget.IcsLinearLayout&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>It seems like the exception is caused by the FrameLayout.</p>
  
  <p><strong>EDIT 2:</strong> Ok, I have found a way to stop the app from crashing. I removed the custom theme from my app and the style from the actionbar, leaving the app theme like:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;application android:allowBackup="true"
      android:icon="@drawable/ic_launcher"
      android:label="@string/app_name"
      android:theme="@style/Theme.Sherlock" &gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>This works well, however, <strong>I have lost the possibility of customizing the actionbar</strong>.</p>