Android TextInputField Inflator Error

Question

Had a crash while trying to use the new TextInputField for Android and wanted to share my solution.

Trying the new TextInputField in the android appcomp

Answer 1

I got the same issue when inflating XML containing TextInputLayout. The problem was fixed by setting the correct Style on my application. Just like it says here : android design support library

I've the following issue

Caused by: android.view.InflateException: Binary XML file line #38: Error inflating class android.support.design.widget.TextInputLayout

My style.xml was

As it said in this post on Design Support Library

Note that as the Design library depends on the Support v4 and AppCompat Support Libraries, those will be included automatically when you add the Design library dependency.

So NO NEED TO ADD the following line inside the gradle file

compile 'com.android.support:appcompat-v7:22.2.0'

I found the link behove explaining that the Design Support Library is part of the AppCompat and it require the AppCompat Theme base to work. So I've modify my style.xml to be

And it worked.