Warning too many attribute references. Possible reasons?

Question

I developed the application and noticed that I get a lot of "Too many attribute references" warnings in logcat.

W/ResourceType﹕ Too many attribute references, stopped at: 0x######## 

I use support.v7.23.1.0 also a design library. I define my styles as follows:

  <style name="AppTheme.Description.TextView" parent="@android:style/Widget.TextView"> <item name="android:textColor">@color/textColorSecondary</item> <item name="android:textColorPrimary">@color/textColorSecondary</item> <item name="android:textSize">@dimen/textSizeItemDescription</item> </style> 

Application Theme:

 <!-- Base application theme. --> <style name="AppTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.NoActionBar"> <!-- Customize your theme here. --> <item name="android:textColorHighlight">@color/colorPrimaryLight</item> <item name="colorPrimary">@color/colorPrimary</item> <!--status bar background color--> <item name="colorPrimaryDark">@color/colorPrimaryDark</item> <!-- color of drawer toggle and other stuff--> <item name="android:textColorSecondary">@color/textColorSecondary</item> <!-- Used to define what color preference categories titles will be--> <item name="colorAccent">@color/colorAccent</item> <!--overrides text color secondary for widgets and action mode --> <item name="colorControlNormal">@color/colorControlNormal</item> <!--when widget is activated for text writing or stuff --> <item name="colorControlActivated">@color/colorPrimaryLight</item> <!--when menu items are being Clicked --> <item name="colorControlHighlight">@color/colorPrimaryLight</item> <!--used in all areas where text color is needed (TextViews, Spinners, etc)--> <item name="android:textColor">@color/textColor</item> <!--used in text inputs like EditText--> <item name="android:textColorPrimary">@color/textColorPrimary</item> <!--main application background--> <item name="android:colorBackground">@color/colorBackground</item> <item name="drawerArrowStyle">@style/Theme.DrawerArrowStyle</item> <!--Context action meniu will overlay toolbar--> <item name="windowActionModeOverlay">true</item> <item name="toolbarStyle">@style/AppTheme.Toolbar</item> </style> 

I was looking for a problem, but all I found was:

 TextView txtView= new TextView(new ContextThemeWrapper(context, R.style.styleName)); 

But I do not have such code in my application.

I want to know what reasons might trigger this warning?

Update 2015-10-22 17:30 I somehow solved this problem by changing all user styles like this

 <style name="AppTheme.Description.TextView" parent=""> <item name="android:textColor">@color/textColorSecondary</item> <item name="android:textColorPrimary">@color/textColorSecondary</item> <item name="android:textSize">@dimen/textSizeItemDescription</item> </style> 

I mean, I left the parent blank. Not sure if this is a good solution or a bad one?

Answer 1

I had the same problem, and at some point an attribute chain was created. By removing the parent, the chain is broken so that you are good.