Error inflating TextInputLayout when used with ViewPager

Question

Looks like TextInputLayout just doesn't work inside ViewPager.

The error is:

Error inflating class android.support.design.widget.TextInputLayout

Appcompat and Design library added. Theme is correct.

I use PageAdapter to inflate and populate ViewPager.

The TextInputLayout view inflates just fine in all other parts of the application.

The layout I inflate for the ViewPager.

<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
  android:layout_width="match_parent"
  android:layout_height="wrap_content">

  <android.support.design.widget.TextInputLayout
    android:id="@+id/text_input_layout"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content">

    <EditText
      android:id="@+id/edit_text"
      android:layout_width="match_parent"
      android:layout_height="wrap_content"
      android:hint="My Edit Text" />

  </android.support.design.widget.TextInputLayout>

</LinearLayout>

Please check this http://stackoverflow.com/questions/30711813/android-design-support-library-with-theme-material — IntelliJ Amiya, Aug 07 '15 at 10:02
@IntelliJAmiya, the View inflates anywhere else but `ViewPager` so it's not a theme, a libraries or anything. — Eugene, Aug 07 '15 at 10:05
What's the entire logcat? Which exception is it throwing? Or is that a "preview" error? — natario, Aug 18 '15 at 18:32
@KevinChris the stack trace is absolutely not informative, a regular exception a View can't be inflated. — Eugene, Aug 19 '15 at 20:20
Hey, did you resolved the issue ? I am facing similar issue and none of below solutions work for me. — Name is Nilay, Nov 08 '16 at 13:44

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 19 '15 at 11:57

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Use this

 <application
    android:allowBackup="true"
    android:icon="@mipmap/ic_launcher"
    android:label="@string/app_name"
    android:theme="@style/Theme.AppCompat">

you have also to extend your class with AppCompatActivity instead of Activity

answered Aug 19 '15 at 11:57

Harry Sharma

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 22 '15 at 07:55

You should try a few things to fix the problem.

extend your activity from AppCompatActivity
extend your (dialog)fragment from android.support.v4.app.Fragment.
use latest version of design library.

Instead of using EditText, use android.support.v7.widget.AppCompatEditText. For example:

    <android.support.design.widget.TextInputLayout
                    android:layout_width="match_parent"
                    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                    app:errorEnabled="true">

                    <android.support.v7.widget.AppCompatEditText
                        android:layout_width="match_parent"
                        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                        android:hint="First Name"
                        android:inputType="textPersonName"
                        android:singleLine="true" />

    </android.support.design.widget.TextInputLayout>

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Nov 08 '16 at 14:51

I had the same issue and none of the above solutions worked for me. Finally, I switched PagerAdapter to FragmentStatePagerAdapter and implemented the whole thing with Fragment.

You can refer to this link for the reference.

For my experiment, I tweaked the demo and inserted TextInputLayout inside it's ViewPager and everything worked perfectly.

Error inflating TextInputLayout when used with ViewPager

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