Gridview v7 support for older api android.support.v7.widget.Gridlayout failed to instaniate

Question

I've been trying to use the v7 support library to use a grid layout in my android project. I've seen that many people have had the same issues that I'm having but all of their fixes don't work for me. I've updated java. I've updated the latest support library. I've added the support package to the build path. I've tried dragging a gridview onto a view and allow eclipse import the package. Non of these work. I continue to get android.support.v7.widget.GridLayout failed to instantiate. I even created a test project and started with the support grid layout and the same error. Anyone have any other ideas? These are some places I've looked for help:

Eclipse giving an error of android.support.v7.widget.GridLayout failed to instantiate

IntelliJ and android.support.v7.widget.GridLayout

Eclipse and Android SL GridLayout not working together - "android.support.v7.widget.GridLayout could not be instantiated"

among many others....

Here's my activity_main.xml:

 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<android.support.v7.widget.GridLayout 
    xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="fill_parent"
    app:alignmentMode="alignBounds"
    app:columnCount="6"
    app:columnOrderPreserved="false"
    app:useDefaultMargins="true" >

    <EditText
        android:id="@+id/total"
        app:layout_column="0"
        app:layout_columnSpan="6"
        app:layout_gravity="left"
        app:layout_row="0"
        android:clickable="false"
        android:ems="10"
        android:inputType="none|number"
        android:textAlignment="textEnd"
        android:width="500dp" >

        <requestFocus />
    </EditText>

    <Button
        android:id="@+id/Button8"
        app:layout_column="1"
        app:layout_row="1"
        android:background="@drawable/button_light_grey"
        android:minHeight="40dip"
        android:minWidth="40dip"
        android:onClick="numberButtonEventHandler"
        android:text="8" />

    <Button
        android:id="@+id/Button9"
        app:layout_column="2"
        app:layout_row="1"
        android:background="@drawable/button_light_grey"
        android:minHeight="40dip"
        android:minWidth="40dip"
        android:onClick="numberButtonEventHandler"
        android:text="9" />

    <Button
        android:id="@+id/Button4"
        app:layout_column="0"
        app:layout_row="2"
        android:background="@drawable/button_light_grey"
        android:minHeight="40dip"
        android:minWidth="40dip"
        android:onClick="numberButtonEventHandler"
        android:text="4" />

    <Button
        android:id="@+id/Button5"
        app:layout_column="1"
        app:layout_row="2"
        android:background="@drawable/button_light_grey"
        android:minHeight="40dip"
        android:minWidth="40dip"
        android:onClick="numberButtonEventHandler"
        android:text="5" />

    <Button
        android:id="@+id/Button6"
        app:layout_column="2"
        app:layout_row="2"
        android:background="@drawable/button_light_grey"
        android:minHeight="40dip"
        android:minWidth="40dip"
        android:onClick="numberButtonEventHandler"
        android:text="6" />

    <Button
        android:id="@+id/ButtonMultiply"
        app:layout_column="3"
        app:layout_row="2"
        android:background="@drawable/custom_button"
        android:minHeight="40dip"
        android:minWidth="40dip"
        android:onClick="Multiply"
        android:text="*"
        android:textColor="@color/light_grey" />

    <Button
        android:id="@+id/Button1"
        app:layout_column="0"
        app:layout_row="3"
        android:background="@drawable/button_light_grey"
        android:minHeight="40dip"
        android:minWidth="40dip"
        android:onClick="numberButtonEventHandler"
        android:text="1" />

    <Button
        android:id="@+id/Button2"
        app:layout_column="1"
        app:layout_row="3"
        android:background="@drawable/button_light_grey"
        android:minHeight="40dip"
        android:minWidth="40dip"
        android:onClick="numberButtonEventHandler"
        android:text="2" />

    <Button
        android:id="@+id/Button3"
        app:layout_column="2"
        app:layout_row="3"
        android:background="@drawable/button_light_grey"
        android:minHeight="40dip"
        android:minWidth="40dip"
        android:onClick="numberButtonEventHandler"
        android:text="3" />

    <Button
        android:id="@+id/ButtonMinus"
        app:layout_column="3"
        app:layout_row="3"

        android:background="@drawable/custom_button"
        android:minHeight="40dip"
        android:minWidth="40dip"
        android:onClick="Subtract"
        android:text="-"
        android:textColor="@color/light_grey" />

    <Button
        android:id="@+id/ButtonDivide"
        app:layout_column="3"
        app:layout_gravity="right"
        app:layout_row="1"
        app:layout_rowSpan="2"
        android:background="@drawable/custom_button"
        android:minHeight="40dip"
        android:minWidth="40dip"
        android:onClick="Divide"
        android:text="/"
        android:textColor="@color/light_grey" />

    <Button
        android:id="@+id/button0"
        app:layout_column="0"
        app:layout_columnSpan="2"
        app:layout_row="4"
        android:background="@drawable/button_light_grey"
        android:minHeight="20dp"
        android:minWidth="82dp"
        android:onClick="numberButtonEventHandler"
        android:text="0" />

    <Button
        android:id="@+id/buttonPoint"
        app:layout_column="2"
        app:layout_row="4"
        android:background="@drawable/button_light_grey"
        android:minHeight="20dip"
        android:minWidth="40dp"
        android:onClick="numberButtonEventHandler"
        android:text="."
        android:width="20dip" />

    <Button
        android:id="@+id/ButtonPlus"
        app:layout_column="3"
        app:layout_row="4"
        android:background="@drawable/custom_button"
        android:minHeight="40dip"
        android:minWidth="40dip"
        android:onClick="Add"
        android:text="+"
        android:textColor="@color/light_grey" />

    <Button
        android:id="@+id/ButtonEqueals"
        app:layout_column="4"
        app:layout_row="3"
        app:layout_rowSpan="2"
        android:background="@drawable/custom_button"
        android:height="40dp"
        android:minHeight="82dp"
        android:minWidth="20dp"
        android:onClick="Equeals"
        android:text="="
        android:textColor="@color/light_grey"
        android:width="40dp" />

    <Button
        android:id="@+id/Button7"
        app:layout_column="0"
        app:layout_row="1"
        android:background="@drawable/button_light_grey"
        android:minHeight="40dip"
        android:minWidth="40dip"
        android:onClick="numberButtonEventHandler"
        android:text="7" />



</android.support.v7.widget.GridLayout>

this is a snip of the project tree showing referenced libraries, dependencies, and libs all pointing to v7 gridlayout: New Edit, asked to remove one reference.

This is the exact exception I get:

java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: android.support.v7.gridlayout.R$dimen
    at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:366)
    at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:355)
    at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
    at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:354)
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:423)
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:356)
    at android.support.v7.widget.GridLayout.<init>(GridLayout.java:255)
    at android.support.v7.widget.GridLayout.<init>(GridLayout.java:274)
    at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)
    at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:57)
    at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:45)
    at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:525)
    at com.android.ide.eclipse.adt.internal.editors.layout.ProjectCallback.instantiateClass(ProjectCallback.java:422)
    at com.android.ide.eclipse.adt.internal.editors.layout.ProjectCallback.loadView(ProjectCallback.java:179)
    at android.view.BridgeInflater.loadCustomView(BridgeInflater.java:207)
    at android.view.BridgeInflater.createViewFromTag(BridgeInflater.java:135)
    at android.view.LayoutInflater.inflate(LayoutInflater.java:466)
    at android.view.LayoutInflater.inflate(LayoutInflater.java:372)
    at com.android.layoutlib.bridge.impl.RenderSessionImpl.inflate(RenderSessionImpl.java:385)
    at com.android.layoutlib.bridge.Bridge.createSession(Bridge.java:332)
    at com.android.ide.common.rendering.LayoutLibrary.createSession(LayoutLibrary.java:325)
    at com.android.ide.eclipse.adt.internal.editors.layout.gle2.RenderService.createRenderSession(RenderService.java:440)
    at com.android.ide.eclipse.adt.internal.editors.layout.gle2.GraphicalEditorPart.renderWithBridge(GraphicalEditorPart.java:1545)
    at com.android.ide.eclipse.adt.internal.editors.layout.gle2.GraphicalEditorPart.recomputeLayout(GraphicalEditorPart.java:1302)
    at com.android.ide.eclipse.adt.internal.editors.layout.gle2.GraphicalEditorPart.activated(GraphicalEditorPart.java:1059)
    at com.android.ide.eclipse.adt.internal.editors.layout.LayoutEditorDelegate.delegatePageChange(LayoutEditorDelegate.java:686)
    at com.android.ide.eclipse.adt.internal.editors.common.CommonXmlEditor.pageChange(CommonXmlEditor.java:360)
    at org.eclipse.ui.part.MultiPageEditorPart$2.widgetSelected(MultiPageEditorPart.java:292)
    at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.TypedListener.handleEvent(TypedListener.java:248)
    at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.EventTable.sendEvent(EventTable.java:84)
    at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Widget.sendEvent(Widget.java:1053)
    at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Widget.sendEvent(Widget.java:1077)
    at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Widget.sendEvent(Widget.java:1062)
    at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Widget.notifyListeners(Widget.java:774)
    at org.eclipse.swt.custom.CTabFolder.setSelection(CTabFolder.java:3028)
    at org.eclipse.swt.custom.CTabFolder.onMouse(CTabFolder.java:1749)
    at org.eclipse.swt.custom.CTabFolder$1.handleEvent(CTabFolder.java:278)
    at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.EventTable.sendEvent(EventTable.java:84)
    at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Widget.sendEvent(Widget.java:1053)
    at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.runDeferredEvents(Display.java:4169)
    at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.readAndDispatch(Display.java:3758)
    at org.eclipse.e4.ui.internal.workbench.swt.PartRenderingEngine$9.run(PartRenderingEngine.java:1053)
    at org.eclipse.core.databinding.observable.Realm.runWithDefault(Realm.java:332)
    at org.eclipse.e4.ui.internal.workbench.swt.PartRenderingEngine.run(PartRenderingEngine.java:942)
    at org.eclipse.e4.ui.internal.workbench.E4Workbench.createAndRunUI(E4Workbench.java:86)
    at org.eclipse.ui.internal.Workbench$5.run(Workbench.java:588)
    at org.eclipse.core.databinding.observable.Realm.runWithDefault(Realm.java:332)
    at org.eclipse.ui.internal.Workbench.createAndRunWorkbench(Workbench.java:543)
    at org.eclipse.ui.PlatformUI.createAndRunWorkbench(PlatformUI.java:149)
    at org.eclipse.ui.internal.ide.application.IDEApplication.start(IDEApplication.java:124)
    at org.eclipse.equinox.internal.app.EclipseAppHandle.run(EclipseAppHandle.java:196)
    at org.eclipse.core.runtime.internal.adaptor.EclipseAppLauncher.runApplication(EclipseAppLauncher.java:110)
    at org.eclipse.core.runtime.internal.adaptor.EclipseAppLauncher.start(EclipseAppLauncher.java:79)
    at org.eclipse.core.runtime.adaptor.EclipseStarter.run(EclipseStarter.java:353)
    at org.eclipse.core.runtime.adaptor.EclipseStarter.run(EclipseStarter.java:180)
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57)
    at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:601)
    at org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.Main.invokeFramework(Main.java:629)
    at org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.Main.basicRun(Main.java:584)
    at org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.Main.run(Main.java:1438)

Solution

I encountered the same problem and I fixed it by importing ".../android-sdks/extras/android/support/v7/gridlayout" as "Existing Android Code Into WorkSpace".

Its project name is "android.support.v7.widget.GridLayout" which is a library. Then you should "Add..." it as a library in the Project/Properties/Android/Library panel. Then it should work. Hope this would be helpful for you.

Below is my xml:

<ScrollView
    xmlns:grid="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
    xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:paddingBottom="10dp" >

    <android.support.v7.widget.GridLayout
        android:id="@+id/gridlayout_home"
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_margin="5dp"
        android:paddingBottom="5dp"
        grid:columnCount="4"
        grid:rowCount="4" >
    </android.support.v7.widget.GridLayout>
</ScrollView>

Comments

[Craig Smith]

nobody has any ideas?

[Raghav Sood]

You seem to have the v7 library imported from two different locations. Try removing the one in referenced libraries.

[Craig Smith]

@RaghavSood I removed one of the references from the build path as you asked, but I still get the same error. I have now posted the exact error I receive from eclipse.

[Craig Smith]

If it's in the generated folder, shouldn't it generate by it's self? I can't copy the v7 grid layout there because when I clean the project it gets deleted.

[Rohit]

no if you give path it in configure build path then after cleaning it will not removed

[Craig Smith]

after looking at my code in Linux I see that in fact there is the support.v7.gridview in the generated code. In windows this still doesn't work but I think it's a problem with eclipse.

[mr5]

I'm missing the .widget part here, means I imported the wrong project?

[Leo supports Monica Cellio]

This is not a solution. GridLayout and GridView are different components used for totally different things.

[Leo supports Monica Cellio]

This is not a solution. GridLayout and GridView are different components used for totally different things.

[Leo supports Monica Cellio]

This is not a solution. GridLayout and GridView are different components used for totally different things.