Android App development error: "Bad XML block: header size 60 or total size 3932356 is larger than data size 0"

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Weston Boone picture Weston Boone · Jan 3, 2012 · Viewed 20.2k times · Source

I checked other posts that were similar and they recommended to clean the build path, but that did not help at all.
I have started android app development and am having a frustrating problem with adding a menu to an activity.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" >
    <item android:id="@+id/save_tea" android:title="@string/save_tea_label" />
</menu>

This throws the "Bad XML block: header size 60 or total size 3932356 is larger than data size 0" in the Eclipse console. I have a menu for the main app activity and it works fine, but this one cannot be combined into the R generated file.

I rewrote a bunch of my pages and it seems to work now, so I either missed something originally or eclipse decided to reevaluate the file.

Answer

jfritz42 picture jfritz42 · Jan 7, 2012

I just ran into the same error message. In my case, the XML was referencing a missing icon file in the drawables folder.

Is it possible you did not have string/save_tea_label at the time of the error?

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