Android - SPAN EXCLUSIVE EXCLUSIVE spans cannot have a zero length

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I have the following layout  virtually empty     lt  xml version  1 0  encoding  utf-8   gt   lt LinearLayout xmlns android  http   schemas android com apk res android      android id    id set layout      android layout width  fill parent      android layout height  fill parent      android contentDescription  content desc      android orientation  vertical   gt        lt TextView android id    id text            android layout width  wrap content            android layout height  wrap content            android text  Hello  I am a TextView    gt   lt  LinearLayout gt    The Activity class contains the following   public class TestActivity extends Activity     public void onCreate Bundle savedInstanceState        super onCreate savedInstanceState       setContentView R layout activity test              When I run this on my mobile device I get the following error   SpannableStringBuilder SPAN EXCLUSIVE EXCLUSIVE spans cannot have a zero length   I have tried this with and without the TextView and the error still remains  I must be doing something fundamentally wrong for such a basic layout to cause this    Does anyone have any ideas on how I can get this to load without the error

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in my case i click on recent apps shortcut on my cell phone and close all apps  This solution always work for me  because this error not related to code

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Check if you have any element such as button or text view duplicated  copied twice  in the screen where this encounters  I did this unnoticed and had to face the same issue

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I have faced the same issue  I almost wasted almost couple of weeks to resolved this issue  Finally I had on doubt on myself and tried to create another project by copy and paste some startup files like SplashScreen  amp  LoginScreen   But with the same code still i was getting SPAN EXCLUSIVE EXCLUSIVE   Then i have removed the handler code from splash screen and tried again and Wow its working  I am not getting SPAN EXCLUSIVE EXCLUSIVE issue in logcat    I wondering  why it is  till the time did not get any other solution but by removing handler from splash screen it is working   Try and update here if it is resolved or not

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On your android phone go to  settings -  application manager -  all -  samsung keyboard and then click on  clear cache   delete all data collected by this application

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Masood Moshref is right  this error occur because the option menu of Menu is not well prepared by lacking  return super onCreateOptionsMenu menu   in onCreate   method

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I had the same problem then i fixed it by following code     text    EditText findViewById R id TextVoiceeditText      text setInputType InputType TYPE CLASS TEXT InputType TYPE TEXT FLAG NO SUGGESTIONS

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I ran into this problem too when I copied some text from the Internet  My solution is to trim the text remove formatting before doing any further processing

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I had the same problem but with a listView     i solved it because i was using a wrong R id listView that list View needed to have a value  in my case it was strings that i saved on listView2    so the right code was R id listView2

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I had the same warning and found that removing an unused  id got rid of the warning  For me it was obvious as the  id was associated with a growing list of textViews linked to a database  so there was a warning for each entry

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this error also occurs due to changed API URL  try hitting the URL you are using in postman and c if it s working properly  rechecking the APIs solved my problem

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Try using the default Android keyboard it will disappear

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This worked for me   on every device        lt EditText         android maxLines  1          android layout width  match parent          android layout height  match parent          android textSize  15sp          android layout centerVertical  true          android textColor   000          android id    id input search          android background   null          android inputType  text          android hint  Enter Address  City or Zip Code          android imeOptions  actionSearch            gt    In Java code   mSearchText setOnEditorActionListener new TextView OnEditorActionListener               Override         public boolean onEditorAction TextView textView  int actionId  KeyEvent keyEvent                if actionId    EditorInfo IME ACTION SEARCH                        actionId    EditorInfo IME ACTION DONE                        keyEvent getAction      KeyEvent ACTION DOWN                        keyEvent getAction      KeyEvent KEYCODE ENTER                      execute our method for searching                            return false

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try avoiding use of view in xml design I too had the same probem but when I removed the view  its worked perfectly   like example                 lt EditText                 android layout width  match parent                  android layout height  wrap content                                     android hint  Username                  android inputType  number                                     android textColor   fff    gt                lt view                 android layout width  match parent                  android layout height  1dp                  android background   f9d7db    gt    also check and try changing by trial and error android inputType  number  to android inputType  text  or better not using it if not required  Sometimes keyboard stuck and gets error in some of the devices

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I have run into the same error entries in LogCat  In my case it s caused by the 3rd party keyboard I am using  When I change it back to Android keyboard  the error entry does not show up any more

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Looking at your code  I m not sure why you re getting that error  but I had this same error but with EditText fields   Changing android inputType  text   or any of the other inputType text variations  to android inputType  textNoSuggestions   or android inputType  textEmailAddress textNoSuggestions   for example  fixed it for me     You can also set this in Code with something like   mInputField setInputType InputType TYPE CLASS TEXT   InputType TYPE TEXT FLAG NO SUGGESTIONS     Looks like Android assumes by default that EditText fields will have suggestions   When they don t  it errors   Not 100  confident in that explanation  but the above mentioned changes fixed it for me   http   developer android com reference android text Spanned html SPAN EXCLUSIVE EXCLUSIVE  Hope this helps

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To try to debug this error  first go to your android terminal   console and execute this command   ps   grep THE ERROR PID YOU GET  IT IS A NUMBER    then if the output comes out as your app    it is your app causing the error  Try to look for empty Strings that you pass into the layout   I had this exact same problem and it was my fault as I was passing an empty String into my layout  After changing the    to     this error went away   If you don t get your app from the console output  then it is something else causing it  probably  as others said  the android keyboard

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In my case  the EditText fields with inputType as text   textCapCharacters were casing this error  I noticed this in my logcat whenever I used backspace to completely remove the text typed in any of these fields   The solution which worked for me was to change the inputType of those fields to textNoSuggestions as this was the most suited type and didn t give me any unwanted errors anymore

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Make clear you have pass a value in your MainAcitivity for the following methods onCreateOptionsMenu and onCreate  In some cases  the developer deletes the  return  super onCreateOptionsMenu menu   statement  and changed to  return  true

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Because the error you re getting is not related to an EditText  then it s not related to your keyboard   The errors you are getting are not a result of your code  you probably are testing on a Samsung device that has Samsung s TouchWiz   I had the same errors  then I tested on a Nexus S  also by Samsung  but pure Android OS without TouchWiz  and I didn t get this error   So  in your case  just ignore these errors while testing on a device

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