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

In my case I had the same error, but only when using a device with API < 24 (emulator or physical device).

This was caused by the use of "gradient" inside a SVG I imported.

The error do not appear in the stacktrace, but it appears in the .xml of the imported SVG file:

This causes the app to crash when inflating a View that has this SVG as its source, for APIs < 24.

If you want to use SVG only, you can restrict the use of this resource to APIs >= 24 and remove the gradient for APIs below.