ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException occurs randomly when starting an Activity with ABS

[atermenji]

I am writing an application with several SherlockFragmentActivities for open-source Catroid project
There is a test project for this application to test UI. It has nearly 150 test cases which are using Robotium to test the behavior. The test project is running daily on Jenkins.
The problem is that sometimes random ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsExceptions occur in different tests when running test project on Jenkins. The stack trace is always the same:

08-02 01:31:53.480 E/AndroidRuntime( 8486): FATAL EXCEPTION: main 08-02 01:31:53.480 E/AndroidRuntime( 8486): android.view.InflateException: Binary XML file line #17: Error inflating class <unknown> 08-02 01:31:53.480 E/AndroidRuntime( 8486): at android.view.LayoutInflater.createView(LayoutInflater.java:518) 08-02 01:31:53.480 E/AndroidRuntime( 8486): at android.view.LayoutInflater.createViewFromTag(LayoutInflater.java:570) 08-02 01:31:53.480 E/AndroidRuntime( 8486): at android.view.LayoutInflater.inflate(LayoutInflater.java:386) 08-02 01:31:53.480 E/AndroidRuntime( 8486): at android.view.LayoutInflater.inflate(LayoutInflater.java:320) 08-02 01:31:53.480 E/AndroidRuntime( 8486): at com.actionbarsherlock.internal.view.menu.BaseMenuPresenter.createItemView(BaseMenuPresenter.java:155) 08-02 01:31:53.480 E/AndroidRuntime( 8486): at com.actionbarsherlock.internal.view.menu.BaseMenuPresenter.getItemView(BaseMenuPresenter.java:174) 08-02 01:31:53.480 E/AndroidRuntime( 8486): at com.actionbarsherlock.internal.view.menu.ActionMenuPresenter.getItemView(ActionMenuPresenter.java:187) 08-02 01:31:53.480 E/AndroidRuntime( 8486): at com.actionbarsherlock.internal.view.menu.ActionMenuPresenter.flagActionItems(ActionMenuPresenter.java:460) 08-02 01:31:53.480 E/AndroidRuntime( 8486): at com.actionbarsherlock.internal.view.menu.MenuBuilder.flagActionItems(MenuBuilder.java:1048) 08-02 01:31:53.480 E/AndroidRuntime( 8486): at com.actionbarsherlock.internal.view.menu.BaseMenuPresenter.updateMenuView(BaseMenuPresenter.java:89) 08-02 01:31:53.480 E/AndroidRuntime( 8486): at com.actionbarsherlock.internal.view.menu.ActionMenuPresenter.updateMenuView(ActionMenuPresenter.java:215) 08-02 01:31:53.480 E/AndroidRuntime( 8486): at com.actionbarsherlock.internal.view.menu.MenuBuilder.dispatchPresenterUpdate(MenuBuilder.java:247) 08-02 01:31:53.480 E/AndroidRuntime( 8486): at com.actionbarsherlock.internal.view.menu.MenuBuilder.onItemsChanged(MenuBuilder.java:946) 08-02 01:31:53.480 E/AndroidRuntime( 8486): at com.actionbarsherlock.internal.view.menu.MenuBuilder.startDispatchingItemsChanged(MenuBuilder.java:969) 08-02 01:31:53.480 E/AndroidRuntime( 8486): at com.actionbarsherlock.internal.ActionBarSherlockCompat.preparePanel(ActionBarSherlockCompat.java:524) 08-02 01:31:53.480 E/AndroidRuntime( 8486): at com.actionbarsherlock.internal.ActionBarSherlockCompat.dispatchInvalidateOptionsMenu(ActionBarSherlockCompat.java:273) 08-02 01:31:53.480 E/AndroidRuntime( 8486): at com.actionbarsherlock.internal.ActionBarSherlockCompat$1.run(ActionBarSherlockCompat.java:988) 08-02 01:31:53.480 E/AndroidRuntime( 8486): at android.os.Handler.handleCallback(Handler.java:587) 08-02 01:31:53.480 E/AndroidRuntime( 8486): at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:92) 08-02 01:31:53.480 E/AndroidRuntime( 8486): at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:130) 08-02 01:31:53.480 E/AndroidRuntime( 8486): at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:3683) 08-02 01:31:53.480 E/AndroidRuntime( 8486): at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method) 08-02 01:31:53.480 E/AndroidRuntime( 8486): at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:507) 08-02 01:31:53.480 E/AndroidRuntime( 8486): at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:839) 08-02 01:31:53.480 E/AndroidRuntime( 8486): at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:597) 08-02 01:31:53.480 E/AndroidRuntime( 8486): at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method) 08-02 01:31:53.480 E/AndroidRuntime( 8486): Caused by: java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException 08-02 01:31:53.480 E/AndroidRuntime( 8486): at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.constructNative(Native Method) 08-02 01:31:53.480 E/AndroidRuntime( 8486): at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:415) 08-02 01:31:53.480 E/AndroidRuntime( 8486): at android.view.LayoutInflater.createView(LayoutInflater.java:505) 08-02 01:31:53.480 E/AndroidRuntime( 8486): ... 25 more 08-02 01:31:53.480 E/AndroidRuntime( 8486): Caused by: java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException 08-02 01:31:53.480 E/AndroidRuntime( 8486): at com.actionbarsherlock.internal.ResourcesCompat.getResources_getBoolean(ResourcesCompat.java:53) 08-02 01:31:53.480 E/AndroidRuntime( 8486): at com.actionbarsherlock.internal.view.menu.ActionMenuItemView.<init>(ActionMenuItemView.java:74) 08-02 01:31:53.480 E/AndroidRuntime( 8486): at com.actionbarsherlock.internal.view.menu.ActionMenuItemView.<init>(ActionMenuItemView.java:68) 08-02 01:31:53.480 E/AndroidRuntime( 8486): ... 28 more 08-02 01:31:53.488 I/Process ( 106): Sending signal. PID: 8486 SIG: 9 08-02 01:31:53.488 W/ActivityManager( 106): Error in app at.tugraz.ist.catroid running instrumentation ComponentInfo{at.tugraz.ist.catroid.uitest/pl.polidea.instrumentation.PolideaInstrumentationTestRunner}: 08-02 01:31:53.488 W/ActivityManager( 106): java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException 08-02 01:31:53.488 W/ActivityManager( 106): java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException: Binary XML file line #17: Error inflating class <unknown>

The stack trace points to some internal ABS problem. Probably options menu is not inflated correctly in some cases but I don't know what exactly causes this issue.

[atermenji]

sometimes this exception appears in setHasOptionsMenu(true) method and leads to the same stack trace.

[JakeWharton]

This exception makes no sense. I don't think there's really anything to be done, sorry. At the very least it seems related to how aapt is generating the R file. Or maybe proguard screwing it up somehow. Really hard to say.

[atermenji]

I guess, you are right, thanks for the help