android.view.ViewGroup$LayoutParams cannot be cast to android.widget.AbsListView$LayoutParams

Question

I am getting this expcetion:

java.lang.ClassCastException: android.view.ViewGroup$LayoutParams cannot be cast to android.widget.AbsListView$LayoutParams
at android.widget.ListView.setupChild(ListView.java:1806)
at android.widget.ListView.makeAndAddView(ListView.java:1775)
at android.widget.ListView.fillDown(ListView.java:672)
at android.widget.ListView.fillFromTop(ListView.java:732)
at android.widget.ListView.layoutChildren(ListView.java:1625)
at android.widget.AbsListView.onLayout(AbsListView.java:1863)
at android.view.View.layout(View.java:11278)
at android.view.ViewGroup.layout(ViewGroup.java:4224)
at android.widget.LinearLayout.setChildFrame(LinearLayout.java:1628)
at android.widget.LinearLayout.layoutVertical(LinearLayout.java:1486)
at android.widget.LinearLayout.onLayout(LinearLayout.java:1399)
at android.view.View.layout(View.java:11278)
at android.view.ViewGroup.layout(ViewGroup.java:4224)
at android.widget.LinearLayout.setChildFrame(LinearLayout.java:1628)
at android.widget.LinearLayout.layoutHorizontal(LinearLayout.java:1617)
at android.widget.LinearLayout.onLayout(LinearLayout.java:1401)
at android.view.View.layout(View.java:11278)
at android.view.ViewGroup.layout(ViewGroup.java:4224)
at android.widget.LinearLayout.setChildFrame(LinearLayout.java:1628)
at android.widget.LinearLayout.layoutVertical(LinearLayout.java:1486)
at android.widget.LinearLayout.onLayout(LinearLayout.java:1399)
at android.view.View.layout(View.java:11278)
at android.view.ViewGroup.layout(ViewGroup.java:4224)
at android.widget.FrameLayout.onLayout(FrameLayout.java:431)
at android.view.View.layout(View.java:11278)
at android.view.ViewGroup.layout(ViewGroup.java:4224)
at android.widget.LinearLayout.setChildFrame(LinearLayout.java:1628)
at android.widget.LinearLayout.layoutVertical(LinearLayout.java:1486)
at android.widget.LinearLayout.onLayout(LinearLayout.java:1399)
at android.view.View.layout(View.java:11278)
at android.view.ViewGroup.layout(ViewGroup.java:4224)
at android.widget.FrameLayout.onLayout(FrameLayout.java:431)
at android.view.View.layout(View.java:11278)
at android.view.ViewGroup.layout(ViewGroup.java:4224)
at android.view.ViewRootImpl.performTraversals(ViewRootImpl.java:1504)
at android.view.ViewRootImpl.handleMessage(ViewRootImpl.java:2458)
at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99)
at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:137)
at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:4424)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:511)
at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:784)
at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:551)
at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)

but the problem is that I can not find the root of the problem. Where exactly and what that means?

And why widget, i don't have any widget!

CODE:

Not sure if here:

public class MyListPreference extends ListPreference {

    public MyListPreference(Context context) {
        super(context);
    }

    public MyListPreference(Context context, AttributeSet attrs) {
        super(context, attrs);
    }

    @Override
    protected View onCreateDialogView() {
        TextView dialogTitle = (TextView)super.onCreateDialogView();

        if (dialogTitle != null) {
            // Dialog
            dialogTitle.setBackgroundColor(getContext().getResources().getColor(R.color.category_background));
            dialogTitle.setPadding(10, 4, 4, 4);

            // Text
            dialogTitle.setTextSize(14);
            dialogTitle.setTypeface(null, Typeface.BOLD);
            dialogTitle.setTextColor(getContext().getResources().getColor(R.color.actionbar_background));

            dialogTitle.setLayoutParams(new LayoutParams(LayoutParams.MATCH_PARENT, LayoutParams.MATCH_PARENT));
        }
        return dialogTitle;
    }
}

Answer 1

dialogTitle.setLayoutParams(new LayoutParams(LayoutParams.MATCH_PARENT, LayoutParams.MATCH_PARENT));

Here you're replacing existing layout params of correct type AbsListView.LayoutParams with more generic ViewGroup.LayoutParams. Layout params type is that of the parent container of the view.

If you need to modify existing layout params, access them with getLayoutParams(), modify it, and call requestLayout() to notify that the layout has changed.

Example. Instead of

fooView.setLayoutParams(new LayoutParams(123, 456));

do

LayoutParams lp = fooView.getLayoutParams();
lp.width = 123;
lp.height = 456;
fooView.requestLayout();