What could be causing a ClassNotFoundException? - android

So I've been working on an app lately which runs fine on most devices. However, sometimes the app crashes at start up with the following error:
java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to instantiate activity
ComponentInfo{com.mypackage.app/com.mypackage.app.activities.MainPager}:
java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: com.mypackage.app.activities.MainPager
at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:1995)
at android.app.ActivityThread.handleLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2096)
at android.app.ActivityThread.access$600(ActivityThread.java:138)
at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:1207)
at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99)
at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:213)
at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:4787)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:511)
at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:809)
at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:576)
at de.robv.android.xposed.XposedBridge.main(XposedBridge.java:115)
at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException:
com.mypackage.app.activities.MainPager
at dalvik.system.BaseDexClassLoader.findClass(BaseDexClassLoader.java:61)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:501)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:461)
at android.app.Instrumentation.newActivity(Instrumentation.java:1053)
at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:1986)
... 12 more
I get that this is because it can't find the class called MainPager. But how is that even possible? I mean, the class should be there.. I put it there myself :) . Why on earth is it not finding it?
EDIT: I think the cause may be that in my manifest I have android:package="com.mypackage.app" defined, but that my launch activity is in the package com.mypackage.app.activities. Currently testing this theory. Still weird that it only happens on some devices, though.
This solution won't work, since I then can't update the APK in Google Play (has to be the same package name in the manifest).

Since ADT update to revision 22 (May 2013) you have to check "Android Private Libraries" check box in Project -> Properties -> Java Build Path -> Order and Export in Eclipse for your older projects to get rid of this exception ...

in the manifest you add Activity name like this
android:name=".activities.MainPager"
because you have given package name
android:package="com.mypackage.app"

Now I am using ART runtime on Nexus 5, and I am getting ClassNotFound for some apps.
You can safely ignore those if that's the case for your users.

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Unable to instantiate application - java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: Didn't find class "com.xxxxx.App" on path: /data/app/com.xxxxx-1.apk

This is the error everytime I run the app:
E/AndroidRuntime: FATAL EXCEPTION: main
java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to instantiate application com.xxxxx.App: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: Didn't find class "com.xxxxx.App" on path: /data/app/com.xxxxx-1.apk
at android.app.LoadedApk.makeApplication(LoadedApk.java:509)
at android.app.ActivityThread.handleBindApplication(ActivityThread.java:4657)
at android.app.ActivityThread.access$1400(ActivityThread.java:159)
at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:1376)
at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99)
at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:176)
at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:5419)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:525)
at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:1046)
at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:862)
at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: Didn't find class "com.xxxxx.App" on path: /data/app/com.xxxxx-1.apk
at dalvik.system.BaseDexClassLoader.findClass(BaseDexClassLoader.java:64)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:501)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:461)
at android.app.Instrumentation.newApplication(Instrumentation.java:992)
at android.app.LoadedApk.makeApplication(LoadedApk.java:504)
at android.app.ActivityThread.handleBindApplication(ActivityThread.java:4657) 
at android.app.ActivityThread.access$1400(ActivityThread.java:159) 
at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:1376) 
at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99) 
at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:176) 
at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:5419) 
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method) 
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:525) 
at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:1046) 
at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:862) 
at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)
Here some info:
JavaVersion.VERSION_1_8 (I cannot use 1.7 because of a library)
buildToolsVersion '24.0.0'
compileSdkVersion & target 24 (also tried 23)
gradle 2.2.0-alpha4 (also tried with 2.1.0)
I have instant run disabled.
I have a class named App that extends Application, so in AndroidManifest.xml I have <application android:name="com.xxxxx.App"
Please don't mark this question as duplicate, because I have already tried all the solutions given, but I cannot get rid of this error.
 
I was having the same error and just cleaning the project solve it for me.
it seems a bug in the new version of android studio.
remove the app from your mobile phone then build => clean project and try installing again
Have you tried running the app on another device/emulator?
I experienced this problem once because I was the 2nd user on the device that I was trying to run it on. If that's the case, you will have to switch to the primary user(owner) every time you wish to run your app.
I was having the same issue, then tried creating the same application class in java instead of kotlin and it worked.

Rare Android Unable to Instantiate Application Exception

I'm seeing the following exception under Crashes in the dev console from time to time.
Whats puzzling about it is that google maps shows up in the call stack as if its calling or creating my app class - very confusing. Whats further weird is the "MyApp-2.apk" in the call stack - where it appends the "-2".
I do include the android.maps.jar file in the libs.
I would like to know how to recreate this if possible and how to prevent this from happening?
java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to instantiate application com.MyApp.MyCustomApp:
java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: Didn't find class "com.MyApp.MyCustomApp"
on path: /system/framework/com.google.android.maps.jar:/data/app/com.MyApp-2.apk
at android.app.LoadedApk.makeApplication(LoadedApk.java:503)
at android.app.ActivityThread.handleBindApplication(ActivityThread.java:4405)
at android.app.ActivityThread.access$1400(ActivityThread.java:141)
at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:1327)
at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99)
at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:137)
at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:5059)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:511)
at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:792)
at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:555)
at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: Didn't find class "com.MyApp.MyCustomApp" on path: /system/framework/com.google.android.maps.jar:/data/app/com.MyApp-2.apk
at dalvik.system.BaseDexClassLoader.findClass(BaseDexClassLoader.java:61)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:501)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:461)
at android.app.Instrumentation.newApplication(Instrumentation.java:967)
at android.app.LoadedApk.makeApplication(LoadedApk.java:498)
... 11 more
Manifest Application Tag:
<application
android:name=".MyApp"
android:hardwareAccelerated="true"
android:icon="#drawable/app_icon"
android:label="#string/app_name"
android:theme="#style/AppBaseTheme" >
I'm using these JARS: android-support-v4-r2-googlemaps.jar + android-support-v4.jar
The prime reason why a Class within your application would be present on your test devices but missing at runtime on some others would be if your class has a dependency on some external feature which is missing on those devices. For example, if you used some Google API which is not part of AOSP and so missing on a plain AOSP build, or a vendor build which does not license these, then your class will be pruned at install time as its dependencies cannot be resolved.
A common reason for your app finding its way into such circumstances might be someone running an inconsistently assembled "custom ROM" on their device.

TextView animation

I find a good external lib to implement many beautiful Textview animations. The link is this: https://github.com/daimajia/AndroidViewAnimations
I have a problem to implement it. I have imported correctly all 3 libs and I use correctly the function like in the dev's example:
YoYo.with(Techniques.Tada).duration(700).playOn(findViewById(R.id.TextView1));
Eclipse doesn't segnalate me any problem. But when I launch the application, it crashes
p.s. sorry for my bad english, I'm italian :(
EDIT 1:
logcat:
FATAL EXCEPTION: main
java.lang.IllegalStateException: Could not execute method of the activity
at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:4960)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:511)
at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:1038)
at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:805)
at de.robv.android.xposed.XposedBridge.main(XposedBridge.java:132)
Caused by: java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:511)
at android.view.View$1.onClick(View.java:3675)
... 12 more
Caused by: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError:com.daimajia.androidanimations.library.Techniques
enter code here
I had the same problem. My problem was missing dependency AndroidEasingFunctions-1.0.0. Please make sure all dependencies are included into the project correctly. See https://github.com/daimajia/AndroidViewAnimations.

NoClassDefFoundError occured while initiate fragment

java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError occured at the first line:
FirstFragment firstTab = FirstFragment.newInstance(10);
mTabsAdapter.addTab(generateTabSpec(0, mTabHost),
firstTab.getClass(), null);
But I'm pretty sure the Fragment exist! (it's a fragment so don't need to check if declared in Manifest.) Even refactoring its name or move to other package didn't fix the problem. Here's the stacktrace:
ERROR/AndroidRuntime(23608): FATAL EXCEPTION: main
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: dev.twothree.android.wtf.FirstFragment
at dev.twothree.android.activity.FragmentTab.setupTabHost(FragmentTab.java:110)
at dev.twothree.android.activity.FragmentTab.onCreate(FragmentTab.java:75)
at android.app.Activity.performCreate(Activity.java:5008)
at android.app.Instrumentation.callActivityOnCreate(Instrumentation.java:1079)
at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2136)
at android.app.ActivityThread.handleLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2207)
at android.app.ActivityThread.access$600(ActivityThread.java:139)
at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:1205)
at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99)
at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:137)
at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:4899)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:511)
at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:791)
at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:558)
at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)
Is it a bug of Intell J 12.0.4? My version is Build #IC-123.169. Later I'll try it in the Eclipse, but still hope it can be resolved in Intelli J.
After open the whole project with Eclipse, config all the dependencies ONCE AGAIN, Eclipse point out that I accidentally CAST one of the custom library class to another class. Maybe that's why no successful compiled class file existed for later invoke.
Anyway, it seems Intelli-J didn't found that error while 3rd party library is involved, it could be a bug. But the blame is also on me for not find that so obvious error.

Android force-close on Google maps: java.lang.NoSuchFieldException: loading_tile_android

One of my Android users is getting a force-close when launching Google Map (MapActivity class) inside my application. He gets a MissingResourceException. He's the only one complaining so far, and he is using Vanilla Tazz phone. The Google maps application itself works well on his device. It looks like it's something specific to Vanilla Tazz. I tried to find a fix online but have not been successful. Here's the Android error log:
java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError
at ...
at android.view.View.performClick(View.java:2449)
at android.view.View$PerformClick.run(View.java:9027)
at android.os.Handler.handleCallback(Handler.java:587)
at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:92)
at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:123)
at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:4627)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:521)
at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:868)
at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:626)
at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)
Caused by: java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError
at com.google.android.maps.MapActivity.<clinit>(MapActivity.java:295)
... 14 more
Caused by: java.util.MissingResourceException: Could not find required resource
com.android.internal.R$drawable.loading_tile_android (java.lang.NoSuchFieldException: loading_tile_android)
at com.google.android.maps.InternalR.getField(InternalR.java:65)
at com.google.android.maps.InternalR.get(InternalR.java:39)
at com.google.android.maps.InternalR.access$000(InternalR.java:28)
at com.google.android.maps.InternalR$drawable.get(InternalR.java:112)
at com.google.android.maps.InternalR$drawable.<clinit>(InternalR.java:119)
... 15 more
I would appreciate if anyone can suggest anything to fix this.
Not sure you'll find a fix for this: it sounds like the ROM was built without that resource as part of the OS image. They'll probably need a new ROM to get around that.

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