android.widget.TextView cannot be cast to android.view.ViewGroup0 -

cannot find source of error. saw other questions concerning same problem, caused missing closing-tag. cannot find 1 missing in code...

my main activity.xml file:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <linearlayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools" android:layout_width="match_parent" android:layout_height="match_parent" android:paddingleft="@dimen/activity_horizontal_margin" android:paddingright="@dimen/activity_horizontal_margin" android:paddingtop="@dimen/activity_vertical_margin" android:paddingbottom="@dimen/activity_vertical_margin" tools:context=".mainactivity" android:orientation="horizontal">  <textview     android:text="@string/main_textview"     android:layout_width="0px"     android:layout_weight="2"     android:background="#fff8dc"     android:padding="@dimen/component_padding"     android:layout_height="match_parent" > </textview>  <textview     android:id="@+id/simplefragment"     android:layout_width="0px"     android:layout_weight="2"     android:orientation="vertical"     android:padding="@dimen/component_padding"     android:layout_height="match_parent" > </textview>  </linearlayout> 

and 1 fragment:

<textview     android:text="@string/hello_world"     android:layout_width="match_parent"     android:layout_height="match_parent" > </textview>  </linearlayout> 

logcat says:

 java.lang.runtimeexception: unable start activity componentinfo{com.example.melle.androidfragments/com.example.melle.androidfragments.mainactivity}: java.lang.classcastexception: android.widget.textview cannot cast android.view.viewgroup   caused by: java.lang.classcastexception: android.widget.textview cannot cast android.view.viewgroup 

viewgroup means view can have other views inside it. you're opening , closing textviews separately, making them group when can't.

based on code posted, solution remove </textview> , close directly @ end of attributes />, this, example:

<textview     android:id="@+id/simplefragment"     android:layout_width="0px"     android:layout_weight="2"     android:orientation="vertical"     android:padding="@dimen/component_padding"     android:layout_height="match_parent" /> 

do in of textviews. also,check if there <textview> tag other view inside it, if should remove , put somewhere else.