Didn't find class "android.view.menu" on path

Question

In my android application i created a menu with two actions save and refresh and called inside another activity.

But it gives this exception, how to resolve this. Didn't find class “android.view.menu” on path

Here is my code ,

This is my main.xml inside main,

<menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" >

    <item
        android:id="@+id/menu_refresh"
        android:orderInCategory="100"
        android:showAsAction="always|withText"
        android:title="@string/menu_refresh"/>
    <item
        android:id="@+id/menu_save"
        android:icon="@android:drawable/ic_menu_save"
        android:orderInCategory="10"
        android:showAsAction="always"
        android:title="@string/menu_save"/>

</menu>

and this how am calling inside my activity,

 @Override
     public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) 
     {
         MenuInflater inflater = getMenuInflater();
            inflater.inflate(R.menu.main, menu);
            return true;
     }
        @Override
        public boolean onMenuItemSelected(int featureId, MenuItem item) {
            switch (item.getItemId()) {
            case R.id.menu_refresh:

                return true;
            case R.id.menu_save:
                return true;
            }
            return false;
        }

Here is my log

android.view.InflateException: Binary XML file line #1: Error inflating class menu
07-23 07:48:05.277: E/AndroidRuntime(1097):     at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2180)
07-23 07:48:05.277: E/AndroidRuntime(1097):     at android.app.ActivityThread.handleLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2230)
07-23 07:48:05.277: E/AndroidRuntime(1097):     at android.app.ActivityThread.access$600(ActivityThread.java:141)
07-23 07:48:05.277: E/AndroidRuntime(1097):     at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:1234)
07-23 07:48:05.277: E/AndroidRuntime(1097):     at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99)
07-23 07:48:05.277: E/AndroidRuntime(1097):     at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:137)
07-23 07:48:05.277: E/AndroidRuntime(1097):     at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:5041)
07-23 07:48:05.277: E/AndroidRuntime(1097):     at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
07-23 07:48:05.277: E/AndroidRuntime(1097):     at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:511)
07-23 07:48:05.277: E/AndroidRuntime(1097):     at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:793)
07-23 07:48:05.277: E/AndroidRuntime(1097):     at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:560)
07-23 07:48:05.277: E/AndroidRuntime(1097):     at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)
07-23 07:48:05.277: E/AndroidRuntime(1097): Caused by: android.view.InflateException: Binary XML file line #1: Error inflating class menu
07-23 07:48:05.277: E/AndroidRuntime(1097):     at android.view.LayoutInflater.createViewFromTag(LayoutInflater.java:698)
07-23 07:48:05.277: E/AndroidRuntime(1097):     at android.view.LayoutInflater.parseInclude(LayoutInflater.java:807)
07-23 07:48:05.277: E/AndroidRuntime(1097):     at android.view.LayoutInflater.rInflate(LayoutInflater.java:736)
07-23 07:48:05.277: E/AndroidRuntime(1097):     at android.view.LayoutInflater.inflate(LayoutInflater.java:489)
07-23 07:48:05.277: E/AndroidRuntime(1097):     at android.view.LayoutInflater.inflate(LayoutInflater.java:396)
07-23 07:48:05.277: E/AndroidRuntime(1097):     at android.view.LayoutInflater.inflate(LayoutInflater.java:352)
07-23 07:48:05.277: E/AndroidRuntime(1097):     at com.android.internal.policy.impl.PhoneWindow.setContentView(PhoneWindow.java:270)
07-23 07:48:05.277: E/AndroidRuntime(1097):     at android.app.Activity.setContentView(Activity.java:1881)
07-23 07:48:05.277: E/AndroidRuntime(1097):     at android.SampleApp.AndroidDashboardDesignActivity.onCreate(AndroidDashboardDesignActivity.java:28)
07-23 07:48:05.277: E/AndroidRuntime(1097):     at android.app.Activity.performCreate(Activity.java:5104)
07-23 07:48:05.277: E/AndroidRuntime(1097):     at android.app.Instrumentation.callActivityOnCreate(Instrumentation.java:1080)
07-23 07:48:05.277: E/AndroidRuntime(1097):     at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2144)
07-23 07:48:05.277: E/AndroidRuntime(1097):     ... 11 more
07-23 07:48:05.277: E/AndroidRuntime(1097): Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: Didn't find class "android.view.menu" on path: /data/app/android.SampleApp-1.apk
07-23 07:48:05.277: E/AndroidRuntime(1097):     at dalvik.system.BaseDexClassLoader.findClass(BaseDexClassLoader.java:65)
07-23 07:48:05.277: E/AndroidRuntime(1097):     at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:501)
07-23 07:48:05.277: E/AndroidRuntime(1097):     at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:461)
07-23 07:48:05.277: E/AndroidRuntime(1097):     at android.view.LayoutInflater.createView(LayoutInflater.java:552)
07-23 07:48:05.277: E/AndroidRuntime(1097):     at android.view.LayoutInflater.onCreateView(LayoutInflater.java:643)
07-23 07:48:05.277: E/AndroidRuntime(1097):     at com.android.internal.policy.impl.PhoneLayoutInflater.onCreateView(PhoneLayoutInflater.java:66)
07-23 07:48:05.277: E/AndroidRuntime(1097):     at android.view.LayoutInflater.onCreateView(LayoutInflater.java:660)
07-23 07:48:05.277: E/AndroidRuntime(1097):     at android.view.LayoutInflater.createViewFromTag(LayoutInflater.java:685)

Answer 1

Did you put the menu.xml file in /res/menu/menu.xml

You might get this error when the menu.xml is within /layout/