title: getting Fatal Exception caused by admob
body: <p>I have an app on the market using admob and now I would like to update my app.  When I test this new version I get a Fatal Exception caused by the admob.</p>
  
  <pre><code>04-06 15:09:04.123: E/AndroidRuntime(409): Caused by: android.view.InflateException: Binary XML file line #51: Error inflating class com.google.ads.AdView
  
  
  04-06 15:09:04.123: E/AndroidRuntime(409): Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: com.google.ads.AdView in loader dalvik.system.PathClassLoader[/data/app/com.kmbdev.purrkitty-2.apk]
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Here is the xml file with line #51:</p>
  
  <pre><code>  &lt;com.google.ads.AdView
      android:id="@+id/adView"
      android:layout_width="wrap_content"
      android:layout_height="wrap_content"
      android:layout_above="@id/bottom_border"
      android:layout_toLeftOf="@id/right_border"
      ads:adSize="BANNER"
      ads:adUnitId="my id"
      ads:loadAdOnCreate="true" /&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I have not made any major changes from the original app that is published. I have only added a splash screen and some language strings files and changed the version to 1.2, the published app is version 1.1.  I was wondering why this app will no longer run. </p>
  
  <p>I have tried again, here is the log:</p>
  
  <pre><code>04-11 12:13:21.474: D/AndroidRuntime(282): Shutting down VM
  04-11 12:13:21.474: W/dalvikvm(282): threadid=1: thread exiting with uncaught exception (group=0x4001d800)
  04-11 12:13:21.644: E/AndroidRuntime(282): FATAL EXCEPTION: main
  04-11 12:13:21.644: E/AndroidRuntime(282): java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to start activity ComponentInfo{com.kmbdev.purrkitty/com.kmbdev.purrkitty.Cat1}: android.view.InflateException: Binary XML file line #52: Error inflating class com.google.ads.AdView
  04-11 12:13:21.644: E/AndroidRuntime(282):  at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2663)
  04-11 12:13:21.644: E/AndroidRuntime(282):  at android.app.ActivityThread.handleLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2679)
  04-11 12:13:21.644: E/AndroidRuntime(282):  at android.app.ActivityThread.access$2300(ActivityThread.java:125)
  04-11 12:13:21.644: E/AndroidRuntime(282):  at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:2033)
  04-11 12:13:21.644: E/AndroidRuntime(282):  at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99)
  04-11 12:13:21.644: E/AndroidRuntime(282):  at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:123)
  04-11 12:13:21.644: E/AndroidRuntime(282):  at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:4627)
  04-11 12:13:21.644: E/AndroidRuntime(282):  at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
  04-11 12:13:21.644: E/AndroidRuntime(282):  at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:521)
  04-11 12:13:21.644: E/AndroidRuntime(282):  at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:868)
  04-11 12:13:21.644: E/AndroidRuntime(282):  at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:626)
  04-11 12:13:21.644: E/AndroidRuntime(282):  at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)
  04-11 12:13:21.644: E/AndroidRuntime(282): Caused by: android.view.InflateException: Binary XML file line #52: Error inflating class com.google.ads.AdView
  04-11 12:13:21.644: E/AndroidRuntime(282):  at android.view.LayoutInflater.createViewFromTag(LayoutInflater.java:576)
  04-11 12:13:21.644: E/AndroidRuntime(282):  at android.view.LayoutInflater.rInflate(LayoutInflater.java:618)
  04-11 12:13:21.644: E/AndroidRuntime(282):  at android.view.LayoutInflater.inflate(LayoutInflater.java:407)
  04-11 12:13:21.644: E/AndroidRuntime(282):  at android.view.LayoutInflater.inflate(LayoutInflater.java:320)
  04-11 12:13:21.644: E/AndroidRuntime(282):  at android.view.LayoutInflater.inflate(LayoutInflater.java:276)
  04-11 12:13:21.644: E/AndroidRuntime(282):  at com.android.internal.policy.impl.PhoneWindow.setContentView(PhoneWindow.java:198)
  04-11 12:13:21.644: E/AndroidRuntime(282):  at android.app.Activity.setContentView(Activity.java:1647)
  04-11 12:13:21.644: E/AndroidRuntime(282):  at com.kmbdev.purrkitty.Cat1.onCreate(Cat1.java:25)
  04-11 12:13:21.644: E/AndroidRuntime(282):  at android.app.Instrumentation.callActivityOnCreate(Instrumentation.java:1047)
  04-11 12:13:21.644: E/AndroidRuntime(282):  at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2627)
  04-11 12:13:21.644: E/AndroidRuntime(282):  ... 11 more
  04-11 12:13:21.644: E/AndroidRuntime(282): Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: com.google.ads.AdView in loader dalvik.system.PathClassLoader[/data/app/com.kmbdev.purrkitty-2.apk]
  04-11 12:13:21.644: E/AndroidRuntime(282):  at dalvik.system.PathClassLoader.findClass(PathClassLoader.java:243)
  04-11 12:13:21.644: E/AndroidRuntime(282):  at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:573)
  04-11 12:13:21.644: E/AndroidRuntime(282):  at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:532)
  04-11 12:13:21.644: E/AndroidRuntime(282):  at android.view.LayoutInflater.createView(LayoutInflater.java:466)
  04-11 12:13:21.644: E/AndroidRuntime(282):  at android.view.LayoutInflater.createViewFromTag(LayoutInflater.java:565)
  04-11 12:13:21.644: E/AndroidRuntime(282):  ... 20 more
  </code></pre>