Getting android.content.res.Resources$NotFoundException: exception even when the resource is present in android

Please let me know where I am going wrong to get the error.

I am creating an app which have one of its activity to be only in landscape mode. So I added the following in AndroidManifest.xml file

<activity android:name=".LandScapeImageActivity" android:screenOrientation="landscape"></activity>

I have created a folder like

/res/layout-land

and add a layout called see_today_landscape_layout in it.

and in onCreate() I added the following

protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.see_today_landscape_layout);
....
}

But when I run my app I am getting the following error

02-06 13:46:14.358: E/AndroidRuntime(13286): FATAL EXCEPTION: main
02-06 13:46:14.358: E/AndroidRuntime(13286): java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to start activity ComponentInfo{com.mid.kew.activities/com.mid.kew.activities.LandScapeImageActivity}: android.content.res.Resources$NotFoundException: Resource ID #0x7f03002b
02-06 13:46:14.358: E/AndroidRuntime(13286):    at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2787)
02-06 13:46:14.358: E/AndroidRuntime(13286):    at android.app.ActivityThread.handleLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2803)
02-06 13:46:14.358: E/AndroidRuntime(13286):    at android.app.ActivityThread.handleRelaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:4066)
02-06 13:46:14.358: E/AndroidRuntime(13286):    at android.app.ActivityThread.access$2400(ActivityThread.java:135)
02-06 13:46:14.358: E/AndroidRuntime(13286):    at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:2140)
02-06 13:46:14.358: E/AndroidRuntime(13286):    at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99)
02-06 13:46:14.358: E/AndroidRuntime(13286):    at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:144)
02-06 13:46:14.358: E/AndroidRuntime(13286):    at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:4937)
02-06 13:46:14.358: E/AndroidRuntime(13286):    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
02-06 13:46:14.358: E/AndroidRuntime(13286):    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:521)
02-06 13:46:14.358: E/AndroidRuntime(13286):    at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:868)
02-06 13:46:14.358: E/AndroidRuntime(13286):    at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:626)
02-06 13:46:14.358: E/AndroidRuntime(13286):    at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)
02-06 13:46:14.358: E/AndroidRuntime(13286): Caused by: android.content.res.Resources$NotFoundException: Resource ID #0x7f03002b
02-06 13:46:14.358: E/AndroidRuntime(13286):    at android.content.res.Resources.getValue(Resources.java:892)
02-06 13:46:14.358: E/AndroidRuntime(13286):    at android.content.res.Resources.loadXmlResourceParser(Resources.java:1869)
02-06 13:46:14.358: E/AndroidRuntime(13286):    at android.content.res.Resources.getLayout(Resources.java:731)
02-06 13:46:14.358: E/AndroidRuntime(13286):    at android.view.LayoutInflater.inflate(LayoutInflater.java:318)
02-06 13:46:14.358: E/AndroidRuntime(13286):    at android.view.LayoutInflater.inflate(LayoutInflater.java:276)
02-06 13:46:14.358: E/AndroidRuntime(13286):    at com.android.internal.policy.impl.PhoneWindow.setContentView(PhoneWindow.java:207)
02-06 13:46:14.358: E/AndroidRuntime(13286):    at android.app.Activity.setContentView(Activity.java:1654)
02-06 13:46:14.358: E/AndroidRuntime(13286):    at com.mid.kew.activities.LandScapeImageActivity.onCreate(LandScapeImageActivity.java:103)
02-06 13:46:14.358: E/AndroidRuntime(13286):    at android.app.Instrumentation.callActivityOnCreate(Instrumentation.java:1069)
02-06 13:46:14.358: E/AndroidRuntime(13286):    at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2751)
02-06 13:46:14.358: E/AndroidRuntime(13286):    ... 12 more

I crossed checked in R.java and it has the resource with the ID 7f03002b which the exception is looking for and it is present in there...

I cleaned and rebuild the project for say 5 times, but still the issue occurs.

Strange point is that this was working yesterday and it's not working today. The code is the same.

Solution 1:

For my condition the cause was taking int parameter for TextView. Let me show an example

int i = 5;
myTextView.setText(i);

gets the error info above.

This can be fixed by converting int to String like this

myTextView.setText(String.valueOf(i));

As you write int, it expects a resource not the text that you are writing. So be careful on setting an int as a String in Android.

Solution 2:

1. in eclipse, go to Project > Clean...
2. select your project, then press OK
3. relaunch the app

if it happens again delete the r.java file. it will generate automatically.

Solution 3:

Since you are setting the layout explicitly you might want to try and put it in the default /layout folder not in the /layout-land since that is if you want Android to automatically handle rotation for you.