Getting "Resource is not a ColorStateList (color or path): TypedValue{t=0x2/d=0x101009b a=3}" on Huawei device API 19

I strangely get the following exception with ACRA 4.6.2 on a reported Huawei device. It’s so weird, cause ACRA is running on my device with API21 and working like a charm, but I’m facing this problem on API19. Even when the user tries to send error with clicking on the error reporting notification to open dialog, no dialog opens and a new notification get created again and so on.

Here is the stack trace:

java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to start activity ComponentInfo{com.sdghasemi.Scheduler/org.acra.CrashReportDialog}: android.content.res.Resources$NotFoundException: Resource is not a ColorStateList (color or path): TypedValue{t=0x2/d=0x101009b a=3}
at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2264)
at android.app.ActivityThread.handleLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2313)
at android.app.ActivityThread.access$1100(ActivityThread.java:141)
at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:1238)
at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:102)
at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:136)
at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:5336)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:515)
at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:865)
at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:681)
at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)
Caused by: android.content.res.Resources$NotFoundException: Resource is not a ColorStateList (color or path): TypedValue{t=0x2/d=0x101009b a=3}
at android.content.res.Resources.loadColorStateList(Resources.java:2301)
at com.huawei.android.content.res.ResourcesEx.loadColorStateList(ResourcesEx.java:752)
at android.content.res.TypedArray.getColorStateList(TypedArray.java:370)
at android.widget.TextView.<init>(TextView.java:711)
at android.widget.TextView.<init>(TextView.java:637)
at android.widget.TextView.<init>(TextView.java:633)
at org.acra.CrashReportDialog.buildCustomView(CrashReportDialog.java:67)
at org.acra.CrashReportDialog.onCreate(CrashReportDialog.java:43)
at android.app.Activity.performCreate(Activity.java:5302)
at android.app.Instrumentation.callActivityOnCreate(Instrumentation.java:1090)
at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2228)
... 11 more
android.content.res.Resources$NotFoundException: Resource is not a ColorStateList (color or path): TypedValue{t=0x2/d=0x101009b a=3}
at android.content.res.Resources.loadColorStateList(Resources.java:2301)
at com.huawei.android.content.res.ResourcesEx.loadColorStateList(ResourcesEx.java:752)
at android.content.res.TypedArray.getColorStateList(TypedArray.java:370)
at android.widget.TextView.<init>(TextView.java:711)
at android.widget.TextView.<init>(TextView.java:637)
at android.widget.TextView.<init>(TextView.java:633)
at org.acra.CrashReportDialog.buildCustomView(CrashReportDialog.java:67)
at org.acra.CrashReportDialog.onCreate(CrashReportDialog.java:43)
at android.app.Activity.performCreate(Activity.java:5302)
at android.app.Instrumentation.callActivityOnCreate(Instrumentation.java:1090)
at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2228)
at android.app.ActivityThread.handleLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2313)
at android.app.ActivityThread.access$1100(ActivityThread.java:141)
at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:1238)
at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:102)
at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:136)
at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:5336)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:515)
at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:865)
at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:681)
at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)

Is there a way to fix it? Any help would be appreciated

[Sdghasemi]

Finally found the problem! I was configuring dialog theme with new Theme.AppCompat.Light.Dialog.Alert which requires to invoke only with android.support.v7.app.AlertDialog.Builder(Context ctx, int theme) and also needs to pass declared theme as theme parameter in its Builder constructor. While ACRA (all dialog versions) uses android.app.AlertDialog that uses device default dialog theme from each SDK API version to illustrate the dialog. The problem solved when I used default dialog theme for each SDK version as my CrashDialog theme. (as described here)

Thank you very much for your quick support. It really helped narrow it down

[william-ferguson-au]

That’s great.