is there a way to disable hardware acceleration only for android 4.0.3?
android, android-4.0-ice-cream-sandwich
Solution
So A-C mentions this in his comment but let me elaborate.
You can create a boolean in a values file and stick it in the correct version folder. In your manifest under
Check out this post: https://plus.google.com/+AndroidDevelopers/posts/DcsFABkyuYM.
Looks like your going to want to target values-v15/bools.xml
http://developer.android.com/reference/android/os/Build.VERSION_CODES.html#ICE_CREAM_SANDWICH_MR1
Problem
I have recently stumbled upon an issue with android 4.0.3, where Im getting the following Exception as soon as the application starts (on other android versions it works fine): ``` java.lang.NullPointerException at android.view.GLES20RecordingCanvas.drawPatch(GLES20RecordingCanvas.java:97) at android.graphics.NinePatch.draw(NinePatch.java:125) at android.graphics.drawable.NinePatchDrawable.draw(NinePatchDrawable.java:189) at android.widget.ImageView.onDraw(ImageView.java:892) at android.view.View.draw(View.java:10978) at android.view.ViewGroup.drawChild(ViewGroup.java:2887) at android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchDraw(ViewGroup.java:2489) at android.view.ViewGroup.drawChild(ViewGroup.java:2885) at android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchDraw(ViewGroup.java:2489) at android.view.View.getDisplayList(View.java:10415) at android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchGetDisplayList(ViewGroup.java:2597) at android.view.View.getDisplayList(View.java:10380) at android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchGetDisplayList(ViewGroup.java:2597) at android.view.View.getDisplayList(View.java:10380) at android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchGetDisplayList(ViewGroup.java:2597) at android.view.View.getDisplayList(View.java:10380) at android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchGetDisplayList(ViewGroup.java:2597) at android.view.View.getDisplayList(View.java:10380) at android.view.HardwareRenderer$GlRenderer.draw(HardwareRenderer.java:842) at android.view.ViewRootImpl.draw(ViewRootImpl.java:1910) at android.view.ViewRootImpl.performTraversals(ViewRootImpl.java:1634) at android.view.ViewRootImpl.handleMessage(ViewRootImpl.java:2442) at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99) at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:137) at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:4424) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:511) at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:784) at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:551) at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method) ``` This is related to having hardware acceleration enabled, as soon as I disable it on the manifest the application starts working just fine. By doing a search I found a log (inside that doc search for "drawPatch") on some conversation of Romain Guy, where he discuss a little bit of what could be causing this, although there is no workaround or fix proposed, I wonder if I should disable hardware acceleration only for this version of android, or if there is a workaround for it? Thanks for your time.