Error inflating class ImageView

Question

I\'ve been getting InflateException/ClassNotFoundException error intermittently. I\'ve seen similar errors before in SO but they were caused by spelling errors. I spelled \'

Answer 1

It's an old question but I just came across the same problem. In my case it was caused by using the android:tint attribute with an selector rather than a color:

While this works without a problem a SDK 21+ it crashes in older versions...

Switching to AppCompatImageView and to app:tint solved the problem: