Eclipse Grapic Layout: Unable to resolve drawable ... in attribute "background"

Hi. I'm adding a background xml file to an Imageview but i get this error in the Eclipse Graphical layout:

error! Unable to resolve drawable "com.android.ide.common.rendering.api.ResourceValue@1ae0c2" in attribute "background" Exception details are logged in Window > Show View > Error Log

When i run the widget on the device, the background is displayed in the right way, but the error in Eclipse is really annoying. The background file is:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<bitmap
    xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:src="@drawable/grey_back_tile"
    android:tileMode="repeat" />

And here's where I use it:

    <ImageView android:layout_gravity="top|center_horizontal" android:layout_marginTop="4dp" android:layout_width="286dp" android:layout_height="47dp" android:background="@drawable/widget_background_banner"/>        

The error log stack trace shows:

org.xmlpull.v1.XmlPullParserException: Binary XML file line #5: requires a valid src attribute at android.graphics.drawable.BitmapDrawable.inflate(BitmapDrawable.java:341) at android.graphics.drawable.Drawable.createFromXmlInner(Drawable.java:779) at android.graphics.drawable.Drawable.createFromXml(Drawable.java:720) at com.android.layoutlib.bridge.ResourceHelper.getDrawable(ResourceHelper.java:150) at com.android.layoutlib.bridge.BridgeTypedArray.getDrawable(BridgeTypedArray.java:668) at android.view.View.(View.java:1846) at android.widget.ImageView.(ImageView.java:109) at android.widget.ImageView.(ImageView.java:105) at sun.reflect.GeneratedConstructorAccessor16.newInstance(Unknown Source) at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(Unknown Source) at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Unknown Source) at android.view.LayoutInflater.createView(LayoutInflater.java:499) at android.view.BridgeInflater.onCreateView(BridgeInflater.java:77) at android.view.LayoutInflater.createViewFromTag(LayoutInflater.java:562) at android.view.BridgeInflater.createViewFromTag(BridgeInflater.java:122) at android.view.LayoutInflater.rInflate(LayoutInflater.java:617) at android.view.LayoutInflater.rInflate(LayoutInflater.java:620) at android.view.LayoutInflater.inflate(LayoutInflater.java:407) at android.view.LayoutInflater.inflate(LayoutInflater.java:296) at com.android.layoutlib.bridge.Bridge.computeLayout(Bridge.java:377) at com.android.ide.common.rendering.LayoutLibrary.createLegacySession(LayoutLibrary.java:394) at com.android.ide.common.rendering.LayoutLibrary.createSession(LayoutLibrary.java:276) at com.android.ide.eclipse.adt.internal.editors.layout.gle2.GraphicalEditorPart.renderWithBridge(Unknown Source) at com.android.ide.eclipse.adt.internal.editors.layout.gle2.GraphicalEditorPart.renderWithBridge(Unknown Source) at com.android.ide.eclipse.adt.internal.editors.layout.gle2.GraphicalEditorPart.recomputeLayout(Unknown Source) at com.andro开发者_Python百科id.ide.eclipse.adt.internal.editors.layout.gle2.GraphicalEditorPart.activated(Unknown Source) at com.android.ide.eclipse.adt.internal.editors.layout.LayoutEditor.partActivated(Unknown Source) at com.android.ide.eclipse.adt.internal.editors.layout.LayoutEditor.partBroughtToTop(Unknown Source) at org.eclipse.ui.internal.PartListenerList$2.run(PartListenerList.java:87) at org.eclipse.core.runtime.SafeRunner.run(SafeRunner.java:42) at org.eclipse.core.runtime.Platform.run(Platform.java:888) at org.eclipse.ui.internal.PartListenerList.fireEvent(PartListenerList.java:57) at org.eclipse.ui.internal.PartListenerList.firePartBroughtToTop(PartListenerList.java:85) at org.eclipse.ui.internal.PartService.firePartBroughtToTop(PartService.java:208) at org.eclipse.ui.internal.WorkbenchPagePartList.firePartBroughtToTop(WorkbenchPagePartList.java:76) at org.eclipse.ui.internal.WorkbenchPagePartList.fireActiveEditorChanged(WorkbenchPagePartList.java:52) at org.eclipse.ui.internal.PartList.setActiveEditor(PartList.java:162) at org.eclipse.ui.internal.WorkbenchPage.makeActiveEditor(WorkbenchPage.java:1281) at org.eclipse.ui.internal.WorkbenchPage.setActivePart(WorkbenchPage.java:3530) at org.eclipse.ui.internal.WorkbenchPage.requestActivation(WorkbenchPage.java:3077) at org.eclipse.ui.internal.PartPane.requestActivation(PartPane.java:279) at org.eclipse.ui.internal.EditorPane.requestActivation(EditorPane.java:98) at org.eclipse.ui.internal.PartPane.setFocus(PartPane.java:325) at org.eclipse.ui.internal.EditorPane.setFocus(EditorPane.java:127) at org.eclipse.ui.internal.PartStack.presentationSelectionChanged(PartStack.java:844) at org.eclipse.ui.internal.PartStack.access$1(PartStack.java:827) at org.eclipse.ui.internal.PartStack$1.selectPart(PartStack.java:137) at org.eclipse.ui.internal.presentations.util.TabbedStackPresentation$1.handleEvent(TabbedStackPresentation.java:133) at org.eclipse.ui.internal.presentations.util.AbstractTabFolder.fireEvent(AbstractTabFolder.java:269) at org.eclipse.ui.internal.presentations.util.AbstractTabFolder.fireEvent(AbstractTabFolder.java:278) at org.eclipse.ui.internal.presentations.defaultpresentation.DefaultTabFolder.access$1(DefaultTabFolder.java:1) at org.eclipse.ui.internal.presentations.defaultpresentation.DefaultTabFolder$2.handleEvent(DefaultTabFolder.java:88) at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.EventTable.sendEvent(EventTable.java:84) at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Widget.sendEvent(Widget.java:1053) at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Widget.sendEvent(Widget.java:1077) at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Widget.sendEvent(Widget.java:1062) at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Widget.notifyListeners(Widget.java:774) at org.eclipse.swt.custom.CTabFolder.setSelection(CTabFolder.java:2743) at org.eclipse.swt.custom.CTabFolder.onMouse(CTabFolder.java:1429) at org.eclipse.swt.custom.CTabFolder$1.handleEvent(CTabFolder.java:257) at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.EventTable.sendEvent(EventTable.java:84) at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Widget.sendEvent(Widget.java:1053) at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.runDeferredEvents(Display.java:4066) at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.readAndDispatch(Display.java:3657) at org.eclipse.ui.internal.Workbench.runEventLoop(Workbench.java:2640) at org.eclipse.ui.internal.Workbench.runUI(Workbench.java:2604) at org.eclipse.ui.internal.Workbench.access$4(Workbench.java:2438) at org.eclipse.ui.internal.Workbench$7.run(Workbench.java:671) at org.eclipse.core.databinding.observable.Realm.runWithDefault(Realm.java:332) at org.eclipse.ui.internal.Workbench.createAndRunWorkbench(Workbench.java:664) at org.eclipse.ui.PlatformUI.createAndRunWorkbench(PlatformUI.java:149) at org.eclipse.ui.internal.ide.application.IDEApplication.start(IDEApplication.java:115) at org.eclipse.equinox.internal.app.EclipseAppHandle.run(EclipseAppHandle.java:196) at org.eclipse.core.runtime.internal.adaptor.EclipseAppLauncher.runApplication(EclipseAppLauncher.java:110) at org.eclipse.core.runtime.internal.adaptor.EclipseAppLauncher.start(EclipseAppLauncher.java:79) at org.eclipse.core.runtime.adaptor.EclipseStarter.run(EclipseStarter.java:369) at org.eclipse.core.runtime.adaptor.EclipseStarter.run(EclipseStarter.java:179) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source) at org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.Main.invokeFramework(Main.java:619) at org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.Main.basicRun(Main.java:574) at org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.Main.run(Main.java:1407)

Naturally the "grey_back_tile.png" is a valid resource, and it's located int the "drawable-hdpi" folder. Any clue to get rid of that error?

I know I am late to this but faced the same issue. I'm pretty certain it's an Eclipse ADT bug but to prevent the annoying errors, if you create a style and add a background item to your tiled background and refer the layout to that, as opposed to editing the background attribute on the layout, it should work and you won't get the annoying errors.

So, tiled background XML named app_background:

<bitmap xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:src="@drawable/space"  android:tileMode="repeat" />

Then a style, referring to it:

    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<resources>
    <style name="TestBackground">
        <item name="android:background">@drawable/app_background</item>
    </style>
</resources>

And then assign the style to the layout:

style="@style/TestBackground"