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Android Build an Interactive Story App (Retired) User Input Using EditText for Text Input

Posted by Ziad Alian
Ziad Alian
1,520 Points

Blank screen

when i run the app after everything working perfectly suddenly in the component Tree everything disappears and i got blank screen! any idea, Why is this happened?

that what i got in the android monitor 

02-26 14:38:22.517 27677-27677/? I/art: Late-enabling -Xcheck:jni
02-26 14:38:22.613 27677-27677/com.example.ziad.interactivestory D/Proxy: setHttpRequestCheckHandler
02-26 14:38:22.628 27677-27677/com.example.ziad.interactivestory D/ActivityThread: BIND_APPLICATION handled : 0 / AppBindData{appInfo=ApplicationInfo{1035e01c com.example.ziad.interactivestory}}
02-26 14:38:22.628 27677-27677/com.example.ziad.interactivestory V/ActivityThread: Handling launch of ActivityRecord{2e12425 token=android.os.BinderProxy@2c7dd9fa {com.example.ziad.interactivestory/com.example.ziad.interactivestory.MainActivity}}
02-26 14:38:22.686 27677-27677/com.example.ziad.interactivestory V/ActivityThread: ActivityRecord{2e12425 token=android.os.BinderProxy@2c7dd9fa {com.example.ziad.interactivestory/com.example.ziad.interactivestory.MainActivity}}: app=android.app.Application@2ccee208, appName=com.example.ziad.interactivestory, pkg=com.example.ziad.interactivestory, comp={com.example.ziad.interactivestory/com.example.ziad.interactivestory.MainActivity}, dir=/data/app/com.example.ziad.interactivestory-2/base.apk
02-26 14:38:22.789 27677-27693/com.example.ziad.interactivestory I/art: Background sticky concurrent mark sweep GC freed 8510(465KB) AllocSpace objects, 0(0B) LOS objects, 36% free, 781KB/1225KB, paused 10.099ms total 36.925ms
02-26 14:38:22.876 27677-27677/com.example.ziad.interactivestory V/TextView: stopSelectionActionMode()
02-26 14:38:22.876 27677-27677/com.example.ziad.interactivestory V/TextView: stopSelectionActionMode()
02-26 14:38:22.880 27677-27677/com.example.ziad.interactivestory V/TextView: stopSelectionActionMode()
02-26 14:38:22.880 27677-27677/com.example.ziad.interactivestory V/TextView: stopSelectionActionMode()
02-26 14:38:22.880 27677-27677/com.example.ziad.interactivestory V/TextView: stopSelectionActionMode()
02-26 14:38:22.913 27677-27677/com.example.ziad.interactivestory V/ActivityThread: Performing resume of ActivityRecord{2e12425 token=android.os.BinderProxy@2c7dd9fa {com.example.ziad.interactivestory/com.example.ziad.interactivestory.MainActivity}}
02-26 14:38:22.913 27677-27677/com.example.ziad.interactivestory D/ActivityThread: ACT-AM_ON_RESUME_CALLED ActivityRecord{2e12425 token=android.os.BinderProxy@2c7dd9fa {com.example.ziad.interactivestory/com.example.ziad.interactivestory.MainActivity}}
02-26 14:38:22.913 27677-27677/com.example.ziad.interactivestory V/ActivityThread: Resume ActivityRecord{2e12425 token=android.os.BinderProxy@2c7dd9fa {com.example.ziad.interactivestory/com.example.ziad.interactivestory.MainActivity}} started activity: false, hideForNow: false, finished: false
02-26 14:38:22.913 27677-27677/com.example.ziad.interactivestory V/TextView: stopSelectionActionMode()
02-26 14:38:22.913 27677-27677/com.example.ziad.interactivestory V/PhoneWindow: DecorView setVisiblity: visibility = 4 ,Parent =null, this =com.android.internal.policy.impl.PhoneWindow$DecorView{3724dda1 I.E..... R.....ID 0,0-0,0}
02-26 14:38:22.925 27677-27703/com.example.ziad.interactivestory D/OpenGLRenderer: initialize DisplayEventReceiver 0xb7ea0d20
02-26 14:38:22.925 27677-27703/com.example.ziad.interactivestory D/OpenGLRenderer: Render dirty regions requested: false
02-26 14:38:22.935 27677-27677/com.example.ziad.interactivestory D/GraphicBuffer: register, handle(0xb7e5e2b0) (w:768 h:768 s:768 f:0x1 u:0x000100)
02-26 14:38:22.935 27677-27677/com.example.ziad.interactivestory D/Atlas: Validating map...
02-26 14:38:22.940 27677-27677/com.example.ziad.interactivestory V/ActivityThread: Resuming ActivityRecord{2e12425 token=android.os.BinderProxy@2c7dd9fa {com.example.ziad.interactivestory/com.example.ziad.interactivestory.MainActivity}} with isForward=true
02-26 14:38:22.940 27677-27677/com.example.ziad.interactivestory V/PhoneWindow: DecorView setVisiblity: visibility = 0 ,Parent =ViewRoot{284381b0 com.example.ziad.interactivestory/com.example.ziad.interactivestory.MainActivity,ident = 0}, this =com.android.internal.policy.impl.PhoneWindow$DecorView{3724dda1 V.E..... R.....ID 0,0-0,0}
02-26 14:38:22.940 27677-27677/com.example.ziad.interactivestory V/ActivityThread: Scheduling idle handler for ActivityRecord{2e12425 token=android.os.BinderProxy@2c7dd9fa {com.example.ziad.interactivestory/com.example.ziad.interactivestory.MainActivity}}
02-26 14:38:22.940 27677-27677/com.example.ziad.interactivestory D/ActivityThread: ACT-LAUNCH_ACTIVITY handled : 0 / ActivityRecord{2e12425 token=android.os.BinderProxy@2c7dd9fa {com.example.ziad.interactivestory/com.example.ziad.interactivestory.MainActivity}}
02-26 14:38:22.993 27677-27703/com.example.ziad.interactivestory E/[DRVB][EXT][UTIL]: disp_only_chk: DRVB CHECK DISP PROCESS DONE ! (0/0x5/0x6/0x4)
02-26 14:38:22.993 27677-27703/com.example.ziad.interactivestory E/[DRVB][EXT][UTIL]: disp_only_chk: DRVB CHECK DISP PROCESS DONE ! (720/1280/1)
02-26 14:38:22.995 27677-27703/com.example.ziad.interactivestory I/OpenGLRenderer: Initialized EGL, version 1.4
02-26 14:38:22.996 27677-27703/com.example.ziad.interactivestory D/OpenGLRenderer: Enabling debug mode 0
02-26 14:38:22.997 27677-27703/com.example.ziad.interactivestory I/[MALI][Gralloc]: dlopen libsec_mem.so fail
02-26 14:38:23.001 27677-27703/com.example.ziad.interactivestory D/GraphicBuffer: register, handle(0xb7ed55d0) (w:720 h:1280 s:720 f:0x1 u:0x000f02)
02-26 14:38:23.002 27677-27703/com.example.ziad.interactivestory I/MaliEGL: [Mali]window_type=1, is_framebuffer=0, errnum = 0
02-26 14:38:23.002 27677-27703/com.example.ziad.interactivestory I/MaliEGL: [Mali]surface->num_buffers=4, surface->num_frames=3, win_min_undequeued=1
02-26 14:38:23.002 27677-27703/com.example.ziad.interactivestory I/MaliEGL: [Mali]max_allowed_dequeued_buffers=3
02-26 14:38:23.003 27677-27703/com.example.ziad.interactivestory D/GraphicBuffer: unregister, handle(0xb7ed55d0) (w:720 h:1280 s:720 f:0x1 u:0x000f02)
02-26 14:38:23.006 27677-27703/com.example.ziad.interactivestory D/GraphicBuffer: register, handle(0xb7ed65e0) (w:720 h:1280 s:720 f:0x1 u:0x000f02)
02-26 14:38:23.059 27677-27703/com.example.ziad.interactivestory E/libEGL: cache file failed CRC check
02-26 14:38:23.111 27677-27677/com.example.ziad.interactivestory V/InputMethodManager: onWindowFocus: android.support.v7.widget.AppCompatEditText{215fa567 VFED..CL .F....I. 0,832-720,922 #7f0c006d app:id/nameEditText} softInputMode=288 first=true flags=#81810100
02-26 14:38:23.115 27677-27677/com.example.ziad.interactivestory V/InputMethodManager: START INPUT: android.support.v7.widget.AppCompatEditText{215fa567 VFED..CL .F....I. 0,832-720,922 #7f0c006d app:id/nameEditText} ic=com.android.internal.widget.EditableInputConnection@11f19810 tba=android.view.inputmethod.EditorInfo@2c92cf09 controlFlags=#107
02-26 14:38:23.144 27677-27703/com.example.ziad.interactivestory D/GraphicBuffer: register, handle(0xb7eeb080) (w:720 h:1280 s:720 f:0x1 u:0x000f02)
02-26 14:38:23.397 27677-27703/com.example.ziad.interactivestory D/GraphicBuffer: register, handle(0xb7ec3918) (w:720 h:1280 s:720 f:0x1 u:0x000f02)
02-26 14:38:23.630 27677-27703/com.example.ziad.interactivestory D/GraphicBuffer: register, handle(0xb7f4f448) (w:720 h:1280 s:720 f:0x1 u:0x000f02)
Harry James
Harry James
14,780 Points
Harry James
Harry James
14,780 Points

Hey Ziad - it doesn't look like there's any errors in the logcat here.

Is it Android Studio that shows up with a blank screen or the app on the emulator?

Speak to you soon :)