Error inflating class Button in Android

Question

I have an application with min sdk 16 up to 23. I want to use Material design as much as possible. It also has to be fullscreen app. AppCompat support library is included. Now I have Logon activity with some buttons:

<Button
    android:id="@+id/act_logon_btn_logon"
    style="@style/ButtonDefault"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:text="@string/act_logon_logon" />

Styles are as follows (values/styles.xml):

<style name="Theme.AppCompat.Light.NoActionBar.FullScreen" parent="@style/Theme.AppCompat.Light">
    <item name="windowNoTitle">true</item>
    <item name="windowActionBar">false</item>
    <item name="android:windowFullscreen">true</item>
    <item name="android:windowContentOverlay">@null</item>
</style>

<style name="AppThemeBase" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.NoActionBar.FullScreen"></style>

<style name="AppTheme" parent="AppThemeBase"></style>

<style name="ButtonDefault" parent="Widget.AppCompat.Button">
    <item name="android:textSize">?attr/font_medium</item>
</style>

<style name="FontStyle"></style>

<style name="FontStyle.Small">
    <item name="font_small">12sp</item>
    <item name="font_medium">14sp</item>
    <item name="font_large">16sp</item>
</style>

<style name="FontStyle.Medium">
    <item name="font_small">16sp</item>
    <item name="font_medium">18sp</item>
    <item name="font_large">20sp</item>
</style>

<style name="FontStyle.Large">
    <item name="font_small">20sp</item>
    <item name="font_medium">22sp</item>
    <item name="font_large">24sp</item>
</style>

And in values/attrs:

<declare-styleable name="FontStyle">
    <attr name="font_small" format="dimension" />
    <attr name="font_medium" format="dimension" />
    <attr name="font_large" format="dimension" />
</declare-styleable>

Attribute font_medium is defined as described here. The behavior I don't understand is that when the Logon activity gets opened, everything is OK, no exceptions. But when I open another activity from Logon activity with fragment inside and the fragment has a button with this style, I get an exception saying "Error inflating class Button". When I delete the textSize attribute from the ButtonDefault style, everything works. Why it does work somewhere and somewhere not? Is there something wrong with the custom attribute?

I've tried to create values-v21/styles.xml with that style but without effect.

Can you also please explain differences between following parent style definitions? I'm getting lost.

parent="Widget.AppCompat.Button"
parent="@style/Widget.AppCompat.Button"
parent="android:Widget.Button"
parent="android:Widget.AppCompat.Button"
parent="android:Widget.Material.Button"
parent="android:style/Widget.Material.Button"

Thank you.

EDIT 1 - exception:

12-17 10:56:53.950: E/AndroidRuntime(7251): FATAL EXCEPTION: main
12-17 10:56:53.950: E/AndroidRuntime(7251): Process: test.android, PID: 7251
12-17 10:56:53.950: E/AndroidRuntime(7251): java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to start activity ComponentInfo{test.dci.android/test.dci.android.view.activity.TransactionActivity}: android.view.InflateException: Binary XML file line #49: Error inflating class Button
12-17 10:56:53.950: E/AndroidRuntime(7251):     at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2702)
12-17 10:56:53.950: E/AndroidRuntime(7251):     at android.app.ActivityThread.handleLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2767)
12-17 10:56:53.950: E/AndroidRuntime(7251):     at android.app.ActivityThread.access$900(ActivityThread.java:177)
12-17 10:56:53.950: E/AndroidRuntime(7251):     at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:1449)
12-17 10:56:53.950: E/AndroidRuntime(7251):     at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:102)
12-17 10:56:53.950: E/AndroidRuntime(7251):     at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:145)
12-17 10:56:53.950: E/AndroidRuntime(7251):     at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:5951)
12-17 10:56:53.950: E/AndroidRuntime(7251):     at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
12-17 10:56:53.950: E/AndroidRuntime(7251):     at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:372)
12-17 10:56:53.950: E/AndroidRuntime(7251):     at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:1400)
12-17 10:56:53.950: E/AndroidRuntime(7251):     at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:1195)
12-17 10:56:53.950: E/AndroidRuntime(7251): Caused by: android.view.InflateException: Binary XML file line #49: Error inflating class Button
12-17 10:56:53.950: E/AndroidRuntime(7251):     at android.view.LayoutInflater.createViewFromTag(LayoutInflater.java:770)
12-17 10:56:53.950: E/AndroidRuntime(7251):     at android.view.LayoutInflater.rInflate(LayoutInflater.java:813)
12-17 10:56:53.950: E/AndroidRuntime(7251):     at android.view.LayoutInflater.rInflate(LayoutInflater.java:821)
12-17 10:56:53.950: E/AndroidRuntime(7251):     at android.view.LayoutInflater.inflate(LayoutInflater.java:511)
12-17 10:56:53.950: E/AndroidRuntime(7251):     at android.view.LayoutInflater.inflate(LayoutInflater.java:415)
12-17 10:56:53.950: E/AndroidRuntime(7251):     at test.dci.android.view.fragment.TransactionFragment.onCreateView(TransactionFragment.java:71)
12-17 10:56:53.950: E/AndroidRuntime(7251):     at android.support.v4.app.Fragment.performCreateView(Fragment.java:1962)
12-17 10:56:53.950: E/AndroidRuntime(7251):     at android.support.v4.app.FragmentManagerImpl.moveToState(FragmentManager.java:1036)
12-17 10:56:53.950: E/AndroidRuntime(7251):     at android.support.v4.app.FragmentManagerImpl.moveToState(FragmentManager.java:1226)
12-17 10:56:53.950: E/AndroidRuntime(7251):     at android.support.v4.app.FragmentManagerImpl.addFragment(FragmentManager.java:1328)
12-17 10:56:53.950: E/AndroidRuntime(7251):     at android.support.v4.app.FragmentManagerImpl.onCreateView(FragmentManager.java:2284)
12-17 10:56:53.950: E/AndroidRuntime(7251):     at android.support.v4.app.FragmentController.onCreateView(FragmentController.java:111)
12-17 10:56:53.950: E/AndroidRuntime(7251):     at android.support.v4.app.FragmentActivity.dispatchFragmentsOnCreateView(FragmentActivity.java:314)
12-17 10:56:53.950: E/AndroidRuntime(7251):     at android.support.v4.app.BaseFragmentActivityHoneycomb.onCreateView(BaseFragmentActivityHoneycomb.java:31)
12-17 10:56:53.950: E/AndroidRuntime(7251):     at android.support.v4.app.FragmentActivity.onCreateView(FragmentActivity.java:79)
12-17 10:56:53.950: E/AndroidRuntime(7251):     at test.dci.android.view.activity.TransactionActivity.onCreateView(TransactionActivity.java:1)
12-17 10:56:53.950: E/AndroidRuntime(7251):     at android.view.LayoutInflater.createViewFromTag(LayoutInflater.java:740)
12-17 10:56:53.950: E/AndroidRuntime(7251):     at android.view.LayoutInflater.rInflate(LayoutInflater.java:813)
12-17 10:56:53.950: E/AndroidRuntime(7251):     at android.view.LayoutInflater.inflate(LayoutInflater.java:511)
12-17 10:56:53.950: E/AndroidRuntime(7251):     at android.view.LayoutInflater.inflate(LayoutInflater.java:415)
12-17 10:56:53.950: E/AndroidRuntime(7251):     at android.view.LayoutInflater.inflate(LayoutInflater.java:366)
12-17 10:56:53.950: E/AndroidRuntime(7251):     at android.support.v7.app.AppCompatDelegateImplV7.setContentView(AppCompatDelegateImplV7.java:256)
12-17 10:56:53.950: E/AndroidRuntime(7251):     at android.support.v7.app.AppCompatActivity.setContentView(AppCompatActivity.java:109)
12-17 10:56:53.950: E/AndroidRuntime(7251):     at test.dci.android.view.activity.TransactionActivity.onCreate(TransactionActivity.java:31)
12-17 10:56:53.950: E/AndroidRuntime(7251):     at android.app.Activity.performCreate(Activity.java:6289)
12-17 10:56:53.950: E/AndroidRuntime(7251):     at android.app.Instrumentation.callActivityOnCreate(Instrumentation.java:1119)
12-17 10:56:53.950: E/AndroidRuntime(7251):     at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2655)
12-17 10:56:53.950: E/AndroidRuntime(7251):     ... 10 more
12-17 10:56:53.950: E/AndroidRuntime(7251): Caused by: java.lang.RuntimeException: Failed to resolve attribute at index 12
12-17 10:56:53.950: E/AndroidRuntime(7251):     at android.content.res.TypedArray.getDimensionPixelSize(TypedArray.java:582)
12-17 10:56:53.950: E/AndroidRuntime(7251):     at android.widget.TextView.<init>(TextView.java:1400)
12-17 10:56:53.950: E/AndroidRuntime(7251):     at android.widget.Button.<init>(Button.java:115)
12-17 10:56:53.950: E/AndroidRuntime(7251):     at android.widget.Button.<init>(Button.java:108)
12-17 10:56:53.950: E/AndroidRuntime(7251):     at android.support.v7.widget.AppCompatButton.<init>(AppCompatButton.java:62)
12-17 10:56:53.950: E/AndroidRuntime(7251):     at android.support.v7.widget.AppCompatButton.<init>(AppCompatButton.java:58)
12-17 10:56:53.950: E/AndroidRuntime(7251):     at android.support.v7.app.AppCompatViewInflater.createView(AppCompatViewInflater.java:98)
12-17 10:56:53.950: E/AndroidRuntime(7251):     at android.support.v7.app.AppCompatDelegateImplV7.createView(AppCompatDelegateImplV7.java:938)
12-17 10:56:53.950: E/AndroidRuntime(7251):     at android.support.v7.app.AppCompatDelegateImplV7.onCreateView(AppCompatDelegateImplV7.java:992)
12-17 10:56:53.950: E/AndroidRuntime(7251):     at 

Answer 1

COPY your image files from "drawable-v24" folder to the "drawable" folder as well. Problem solved. credit: https://github.com/chrisjenx/Calligraphy/issues/417

Answer 2

I fixed it by creating own appcompat style for api less then 21,

styles.xml

  <style name="ColoredButtonAppcompat">
    <item name="android:textAppearance">@style/ButtonTextStyle</item>
    <item name="android:background">@drawable/colored_button_background</item>
    <item name="android:minHeight">48dip</item>
    <item name="android:minWidth">88dip</item>
    <item name="android:focusable">true</item>
    <item name="android:clickable">true</item>
    <item name="android:gravity">center_vertical|center_horizontal</item>
</style>

<style name="ButtonTextStyle" >
    <item name="android:textSize">14dp</item>
    <item name="android:textColor">@android:color/white</item>
</style>

styles-v21.xml

<style name="ColoredButtonAppcompat" parent="Widget.AppCompat.Button.Colored"/>