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I'm struggling with StackOverflowErrors in the main UI thread ( related question ). My app targets Android 2.3+. On Android 4 everything is fine, but I'm getting crashes on 2.3.3 when the view layout is drawn. The obvious answer is to optimize my view layout and reduce the number of nested views. This is a problem because the large number of views is due to me using the support library and fragments for tabs - which is the recommended approach. I don't want to change my design and drop fragments simply because an older ver of the OS has a small stack. I'm looking for ways to increase the stack size of the UI thread. I've seen answers that this is not possible, and I understand that there is no simple setting in the manifest to do so. But, I'm still not satisfied that there is no manual workaround. My best idea thus far: Create a new worker thread (Thread class) with a larger stack. It is possible to increase the stack size for worker threads. Then, transform this thread somehow to the new UI thread. How? Browsing through the Android sources for android.app.Activity .attach(..) I've seen that an activity attaches itself to a UI thread. Maybe there is some way to replace the thread it is attached to and change it to my "new" UI thread Going a little deeper to android.app.ActivityThread .startActivityNow(..), maybe I'll be able to start my activity manually. Once the activity

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