Error inflating class de.hdodenhof.circleimageview.CircleImageView in Android version 6 marshmallow

Question

I created an app which uses this hdodenhof CircleImageview library. My app works fine on Android 7 and 7.1 but it is crashing in lower versions such as marshmallow/Android 6. How can I solve this problem? I have read his GitHub posts but it did not solve my problem as people has asked to remove attributes from the .xml, but I didn't use these attributes.

Here's my simple implementation of the CircleImageView:

<de.hdodenhof.circleimageview.CircleImageView
        android:id="@+id/civ_requests"
        android:layout_width="80sp"
        android:layout_height="80sp"
        android:layout_margin="10sp"
        android:src="@drawable/profilesvg" />

And heres the error:

FATAL EXCEPTION: main
Process: com.milind.locatemymate, PID: 4288
android.view.InflateException: Binary XML file line #0: Binary XML file line #0: Error inflating class de.hdodenhof.circleimageview.CircleImageView
at android.view.LayoutInflater.inflate(LayoutInflater.java:539)
at android.view.LayoutInflater.inflate(LayoutInflater.java:423)
at com.milind.locatemymate.Fragment.Requests$1.onCreateViewHolder(Requests.java:152)
at com.milind.locatemymate.Fragment.Requests$1.onCreateViewHolder(Requests.java:103)
at android.support.v7.widget.RecyclerView$Adapter.createViewHolder(RecyclerView.java:6685)
at android.support.v7.widget.RecyclerView$Recycler.tryGetViewHolderForPositionByDeadline(RecyclerView.java:5869)
at android.support.v7.widget.RecyclerView$Recycler.getViewForPosition(RecyclerView.java:5752)
at android.support.v7.widget.RecyclerView$Recycler.getViewForPosition(RecyclerView.java:5748)
at android.support.v7.widget.LinearLayoutManager$LayoutState.next(LinearLayoutManager.java:2232)
at android.support.v7.widget.LinearLayoutManager.layoutChunk(LinearLayoutManager.java:1559)
at android.support.v7.widget.LinearLayoutManager.fill(LinearLayoutManager.java:1519)
at android.support.v7.widget.LinearLayoutManager.onLayoutChildren(LinearLayoutManager.java:614)
at android.support.v7.widget.RecyclerView.dispatchLayoutStep2(RecyclerView.java:3812)
at android.support.v7.widget.RecyclerView.onMeasure(RecyclerView.java:3225)
at android.view.View.measure(View.java:18788)
at android.view.ViewGroup.measureChildWithMargins(ViewGroup.java:5951)
at android.widget.LinearLayout.measureChildBeforeLayout(LinearLayout.java:1465)
at android.widget.LinearLayout.measureVertical(LinearLayout.java:748)
at android.widget.LinearLayout.onMeasure(LinearLayout.java:630)
at android.view.View.measure(View.java:18788)
at android.support.v4.view.ViewPager.onMeasure(ViewPager.java:1632)
at android.view.View.measure(View.java:18788)
at android.view.ViewGroup.measureChildWithMargins(ViewGroup.java:5951)
at android.widget.LinearLayout.measureChildBeforeLayout(LinearLayout.java:1465)
at android.widget.LinearLayout.measureVertical(LinearLayout.java:748)
at android.widget.LinearLayout.onMeasure(LinearLayout.java:630)
at android.view.View.measure(View.java:18788)
at android.view.ViewGroup.measureChildWithMargins(ViewGroup.java:5951)
at android.widget.FrameLayout.onMeasure(FrameLayout.java:194)
at android.support.v7.widget.ContentFrameLayout.onMeasure(ContentFrameLayout.java:141)
at android.view.View.measure(View.java:18788)
at android.view.ViewGroup.measureChildWithMargins(ViewGroup.java:5951)
at android.widget.LinearLayout.measureChildBeforeLayout(LinearLayout.java:1465)
at android.widget.LinearLayout.measureVertical(LinearLayout.java:748)
at android.widget.LinearLayout.onMeasure(LinearLayout.java:630)
at android.view.View.measure(View.java:18788)
at android.view.ViewGroup.measureChildWithMargins(ViewGroup.java:5951)
at android.widget.FrameLayout.onMeasure(FrameLayout.java:194)
at android.view.View.measure(View.java:18788)
at android.view.ViewGroup.measureChildWithMargins(ViewGroup.java:5951)

Same error in friends fragment, heres its updated xml layout:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:orientation="vertical"
    android:padding="5dp">

    <LinearLayout
        android:orientation="horizontal"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content">
    <de.hdodenhof.circleimageview.CircleImageView
        android:src="@drawable/profilesvg"
        android:id="@+id/civ_friend"
        android:layout_width="80dp"
        android:layout_height="80dp" />

    <LinearLayout
        android:layout_marginLeft="10dp"
        android:layout_marginStart="10dp"
        android:padding="5dp"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:orientation="vertical">

        <TextView
            android:textStyle="bold"
            android:textColor="@color/LightBlack"
            android:id="@+id/tv_friendName"
            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content" />

        <TextView
            android:textColor="@color/LightBlack"
            android:layout_marginTop="5dp"
            android:id="@+id/tv_friendStatus"
            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content" />
    </LinearLayout>
    </LinearLayout>
    <View
        android:layout_marginTop="5dp"
        android:background="@color/LightGrey"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="0.5dp" />
</LinearLayout>

Answer 1

I also faced the same issue having width and height is "dp". But, on my side it resolves by replacing scaleType from fitcenter to centerCrop.