title: Error inflating class com.google.ads.AdView
body: <p>Hello I am new to android dev and admob. I am trying to make a simple test app with a button, a couple pages and admob at the bottom. Everything works fine until I try implementing admob. Here is my code:</p>
  
  <p>HelloAndroid.java:</p>
  
  <pre><code>package com.manny.HelloAndroid;
  
  import android.app.Activity;
  import android.content.Intent;
  import android.os.Bundle;
  import android.view.View;
  import android.widget.ImageView;
  
  public class HelloAndroid extends Activity {
      /** Called when the activity is first created. */
      private static final int ACTIVITY_CREATE = 0;
      @Override
      public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
          super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
  
  
          setContentView(R.layout.main);
          ImageView image = (ImageView) findViewById(R.id.test_image);
          //image.setScaleType(ImageView.ScaleType.FIT_XY);
  
      }
      public void onClick(View v){
          Intent i = new Intent(this, HelloPage2.class);
          startActivityForResult(i, ACTIVITY_CREATE);
      }
  }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>main.xml:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?&gt;
  &lt;RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
      xmlns:ads="http://schemas.android.com/apk/lib/com.google.ads"
      android:layout_width="fill_parent"
      android:layout_height="fill_parent"
      android:orientation="vertical" &gt;
  
      &lt;ImageView 
          android:id="@+id/test_image"
          android:src="@drawable/bak_vert_480x800"
          android:layout_width="wrap_content"
          android:layout_height="wrap_content"
          android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"
          android:scaleType="fitXY"
          /&gt;
  
      &lt;TextView
          android:layout_width="fill_parent"
          android:layout_height="wrap_content"
          android:text="@string/hello" /&gt;
      &lt;ImageButton 
          android:id="@+id/test_button"
          android:layout_width="wrap_content"
          android:layout_height="wrap_content"
          android:src="@drawable/btn_arrow"
          android:layout_marginLeft="100dp"
          android:layout_marginTop="200dp"
          android:onClick="onClick"
          /&gt;
       &lt;com.google.ads.AdView android:id="@+id/adView"
                           android:layout_width="wrap_content"
                           android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                           ads:adUnitId="b14be806e9ddf1f"
                           ads:adSize="BANNER"
                           ads:testDevices="TEST_EMULATOR, TEST_DEVICE_ID"
                           ads:loadAdOnCreate="true"/&gt;
  
  &lt;/RelativeLayout&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>hello android Manifest:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?&gt;
  &lt;manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
      package="com.manny.HelloAndroid"
      android:versionCode="1"
      android:versionName="1.0" &gt;
  
      &lt;uses-sdk android:minSdkVersion="7" 
          android:targetSdkVersion="13"/&gt;
  
      &lt;application
          android:icon="@drawable/ic_launcher"
          android:label="@string/app_name" 
          android:theme="@android:style/Theme.NoTitleBar.Fullscreen"&gt;
          &lt;activity
              android:name=".HelloAndroid"
              android:label="@string/app_name" &gt;
              &lt;intent-filter&gt;
                  &lt;action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" /&gt;
  
                  &lt;category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" /&gt;
              &lt;/intent-filter&gt;
          &lt;/activity&gt;
          &lt;activity
              android:name=".HelloPage2"&gt;
          &lt;/activity&gt;
      &lt;activity android:name="com.google.ads.AdActivity"
                      android:configChanges="keyboard|keyboardHidden|orientation|screenLayout|uiMode|screenSize|s    mallestScreenSize"/&gt;
    &lt;/application&gt;
    &lt;uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET"/&gt;
    &lt;uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE"/&gt;
  &lt;/manifest&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>logcat output:</p>
  
  <pre><code>05-09 13:12:00.859: D/dalvikvm(24278): GC_EXTERNAL_ALLOC freed 51K, 44% free 3054K/5379K, external 2357K/2773K, paused 94ms
  05-09 13:12:00.937: D/dalvikvm(24278): GC_EXTERNAL_ALLOC freed 1K, 44% free 3053K/5379K, external 3857K/4816K, paused 31ms
  05-09 13:12:01.085: D/AndroidRuntime(24278): Shutting down VM
  05-09 13:12:01.085: W/dalvikvm(24278): threadid=1: thread exiting with uncaught exception (group=0x4001e560)
  05-09 13:12:01.109: E/AndroidRuntime(24278): FATAL EXCEPTION: main
  05-09 13:12:01.109: E/AndroidRuntime(24278): java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to start activity ComponentInfo{com.manny.HelloAndroid/com.manny.HelloAndroid.HelloAndroid}: android.view.InflateException: Binary XML file line #30: Error inflating class com.google.ads.AdView
  05-09 13:12:01.109: E/AndroidRuntime(24278):    at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:1702)
  05-09 13:12:01.109: E/AndroidRuntime(24278):    at android.app.ActivityThread.handleLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:1722)
  05-09 13:12:01.109: E/AndroidRuntime(24278):    at android.app.ActivityThread.access$1500(ActivityThread.java:124)
  05-09 13:12:01.109: E/AndroidRuntime(24278):    at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:974)
  05-09 13:12:01.109: E/AndroidRuntime(24278):    at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99)
  05-09 13:12:01.109: E/AndroidRuntime(24278):    at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:130)
  05-09 13:12:01.109: E/AndroidRuntime(24278):    at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:3821)
  05-09 13:12:01.109: E/AndroidRuntime(24278):    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
  05-09 13:12:01.109: E/AndroidRuntime(24278):    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:507)
  05-09 13:12:01.109: E/AndroidRuntime(24278):    at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:839)
  05-09 13:12:01.109: E/AndroidRuntime(24278):    at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:597)
  05-09 13:12:01.109: E/AndroidRuntime(24278):    at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)
  05-09 13:12:01.109: E/AndroidRuntime(24278): Caused by: android.view.InflateException: Binary XML file line #30: Error inflating class com.google.ads.AdView
  05-09 13:12:01.109: E/AndroidRuntime(24278):    at android.view.LayoutInflater.createViewFromTag(LayoutInflater.java:581)
  05-09 13:12:01.109: E/AndroidRuntime(24278):    at android.view.LayoutInflater.rInflate(LayoutInflater.java:623)
  05-09 13:12:01.109: E/AndroidRuntime(24278):    at android.view.LayoutInflater.inflate(LayoutInflater.java:408)
  05-09 13:12:01.109: E/AndroidRuntime(24278):    at android.view.LayoutInflater.inflate(LayoutInflater.java:320)
  05-09 13:12:01.109: E/AndroidRuntime(24278):    at android.view.LayoutInflater.inflate(LayoutInflater.java:276)
  05-09 13:12:01.109: E/AndroidRuntime(24278):    at com.android.internal.policy.impl.PhoneWindow.setContentView(PhoneWindow.java:253)
  05-09 13:12:01.109: E/AndroidRuntime(24278):    at android.app.Activity.setContentView(Activity.java:1716)
  05-09 13:12:01.109: E/AndroidRuntime(24278):    at com.manny.HelloAndroid.HelloAndroid.onCreate(HelloAndroid.java:17)
  05-09 13:12:01.109: E/AndroidRuntime(24278):    at android.app.Instrumentation.callActivityOnCreate(Instrumentation.java:1047)
  05-09 13:12:01.109: E/AndroidRuntime(24278):    at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:1666)
  05-09 13:12:01.109: E/AndroidRuntime(24278):    ... 11 more
  05-09 13:12:01.109: E/AndroidRuntime(24278): Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: com.google.ads.AdView in loader dalvik.system.PathClassLoader[/data/app/com.manny.HelloAndroid-2.apk]
  05-09 13:12:01.109: E/AndroidRuntime(24278):    at dalvik.system.PathClassLoader.findClass(PathClassLoader.java:240)
  05-09 13:12:01.109: E/AndroidRuntime(24278):    at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:551)
  05-09 13:12:01.109: E/AndroidRuntime(24278):    at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:511)
  05-09 13:12:01.109: E/AndroidRuntime(24278):    at android.view.LayoutInflater.createView(LayoutInflater.java:471)
  05-09 13:12:01.109: E/AndroidRuntime(24278):    at android.view.LayoutInflater.createViewFromTag(LayoutInflater.java:570)
  05-09 13:12:01.109: E/AndroidRuntime(24278):    ... 20 more
  05-09 13:12:11.593: I/Process(24278): Sending signal. PID: 24278 SIG: 9
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I am using GoogleAdMobAdsSdkAndroid-6.0.0. Again I am very new to this and I have tried using examples off multiple sites but the app continues to crash when it hits a page with admob in it. If someone can help me it would be much appreciated. Thank you. If more code is needed let me know.</p>