java.lang.ClassCastException in android

Question

I have created an app and it was running successfully till yesterday, by today when I tried running it on my device it shows the following error in logcat and my app gets crashed.

03-31 12:37:47.059: ERROR/(1916): java.lang.ClassCastException: android.widget.ImageView
03-31 12:37:47.239: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(1916): Uncaught handler: thread main exiting due to uncaught exception
03-31 12:37:47.246: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(1916): java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to start activity ComponentInfo{com.fis.flash/com.fis.flash.FirstImage}: java.lang.ClassCastException: android.widget.AbsoluteLayout
03-31 12:37:47.246: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(1916):     at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2496)
03-31 12:37:47.246: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(1916):     at android.app.ActivityThread.handleLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2512)
03-31 12:37:47.246: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(1916):     at android.app.ActivityThread.access$2200(ActivityThread.java:119)
03-31 12:37:47.246: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(1916):     at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:1863)
03-31 12:37:47.246: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(1916):     at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99)
03-31 12:37:47.246: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(1916):     at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:123)
03-31 12:37:47.246: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(1916):     at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:4363)
03-31 12:37:47.246: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(1916):     at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
03-31 12:37:47.246: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(1916):     at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:521)
03-31 12:37:47.246: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(1916):     at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:860)
03-31 12:37:47.246: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(1916):     at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:618)
03-31 12:37:47.246: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(1916):     at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)
03-31 12:37:47.246: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(1916): Caused by: java.lang.ClassCastException: android.widget.AbsoluteLayout
03-31 12:37:47.246: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(1916):     at com.fis.flash.FirstImage.onCreate(FirstImage.java:106)
03-31 12:37:47.246: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(1916):     at android.app.Instrumentation.callActivityOnCreate(Instrumentation.java:1047)
03-31 12:37:47.246: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(1916):     at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2459)
03-31 12:37:47.246: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(1916):     ... 11 more

It shows an error in a ImageView of my main class activity, but all the details are been correct in my coding side.

What's this error, how to over come this?

Answer 1

hi i have found my error, i have assigned linear layout in one of my xml file but i have mentioned it to be absolute layout in my class file.