Victor, I am not entirely sure. But I can suggest a couple of experiments to debug. May be inheriting a View directly is too simplisitic. Try inheriting a TextView first. And if it works then you can look at what other base methods of the "View" you will need to inherit.
Take a look at this item from the docs http://developer.android.com/training/custom-views/custom-drawing.html to see what other methods you need to override. Also if you are intending to use some custom attributes you may want to look at some detailed notes I have gathered at http://satyakomatineni.com/item/4169 This goes into how attrs.xml and declare styleables work. Also let me know what you find. Thanks Satya http://satyakomatineni.com/android/training http://satyakomatineni.com http://androidbook.com http://twitter.com/SatyaKomatineni On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 2:09 PM, Victor Reboucas <vcsrebou...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, I'm new to Android development and I'm trying to implement a custom view > to act as a "custom menu button" for my app. > > I followed the instructions at > http://developer.android.com/training/custom-views/create-view.html but by > the end of the implementation I get a message saying "Unfortunately > customviews1 has stopped" and the app just shut's down. > > My approach is very simple and I cannot find any reference about solving > this basic problem. Here's what I'm doing: > > 1. create a new Android project in Eclipse named "customviews1" > > 2. I run the project and it shows a "Hello World" TextView on the > "activity_main.xml" layout file > > 3. I add a new class that extends "View" to the "src" folder of the project: > > public class MyCustomView extends View { > > public MyCustomView(Context context, AttributeSet attrs) { > super(context, attrs); > } > > } > > 4. I remove the "TextView" from activity_main.xml and add a "customview1" to > it: > > > <RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"; > xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"; > android:layout_width="match_parent" > android:layout_height="match_parent"> > > <com.example.customviews1.MyCustomView android:id="@+id/myCustomView1" /> > </RelativeLayout> > > 5. I run the app again and I got the message saying "Unfortunately > customviews1 has stopped" and the app shuts down. > > > Is there any code I'm missing here? > > > Thanks for any clue, > Regards, > Victor Reboucas > > > > > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Android Developers" group. > To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
