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Question

I have run into the same error entries in LogCat. In my case it's caused by the 3rd party keyboard I am using. When I change it back to Android keyboard, the error entry does not show up any more.

Because the error you're getting is not related to an EditText, then it's not related to your keyboard.

The errors you are getting are not a result of your code; you probably are testing on a Samsung device that has Samsung's TouchWiz.

I had the same errors, then I tested on a Nexus S (also by Samsung, but pure Android OS without TouchWiz) and I didn't get this error.

So, in your case, just ignore these errors while testing on a device! :)

Looking at your code, I'm not sure why you're getting that error, but I had this same error but with EditText fields.

Changing android:inputType="text" (or any of the other inputType text variations) to android:inputType="textNoSuggestions" (or android:inputType="textEmailAddress|textNoSuggestions", for example) fixed it for me.

You can also set this in Code with something like

mInputField.setInputType(InputType.TYPE_CLASS_TEXT | InputType.TYPE_TEXT_FLAG_NO_SUGGESTIONS);

Looks like Android assumes by default that EditText fields will have suggestions. When they don't, it errors. Not 100% confident in that explanation, but the above mentioned changes fixed it for me.

http://developer.android.com/reference/android/text/Spanned.html#SPAN_EXCLUSIVE_EXCLUSIVE

Hope this helps!

On your android phone go to:
settings -> application manager -> all -> samsung keyboard and then click on "clear cache"
(delete all data collected by this application).

Try using the default Android keyboard it will disappear

Make clear you have pass a value in your MainAcitivity for the following methods onCreateOptionsMenu and onCreate

In some cases, the developer deletes the "return super.onCreateOptionsMenu(menu)" statement and changed to "return true".