I have come across a strange error. I have an Android project that uses external libraries, in particular:
android-support-v4.jar (for Fragment support in Android 1.6)
GoogleAdMobAdsSdk-4.3.1.jar (for ads)
The project ran fine until I updated some aspects of the plugin (can't recall the specifics as I did not pay too much attention to it) and after that, whenever I try to use any class from the above .jar files (or any of its subclasses, even ones defined by me), I would get a java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError. I could not find the answer after much searching, so I am really stumped.
I believe this problem is related to how my IDE is set up and it has little to do with actual code, so I will not post any unless if it's absolutely necessary.
You need to read this - Dealing with dependencies in Android projects.
This link is also useful - ClassDefNotFoundError with ADT 17
Basically, create a folder called libs and place all of your jar files inside. The recent update will automatically take care of the rest for you. You don't need to edit your path anymore.
Android does not support Java1.7 up to now. Jars built with compliance level 1.7 cannot be used in Android Applications. Rebuild your Java project with compliance level 5.0 or 6.0 before exporting the jar file.
I found this post via google and answers above didn't solve my problem. Hope what I say will be helpful to others.
If you see NoClassDefFoundError after upgrading to ADT 22, try this in Eclipse:
Go to Project Properties → Java Build Path → Order and Export tab.
Check the Android Private Libraries option.
Also a warning to others who have updated to r17 with many dependencies. I had a another referenced project on my build path and it still did not work after following ALL the directions on this r17 issue on the internet.
Found out after an hour that my referenced project used an older version of an external Jar than my main project did. When trying to compile the main project, Eclipse would give up due to this jar version difference and I never noticed the warning message in Console.
Solution was to copy the newer version external jar file to the referenced project's libs directory.
Wow - such a productivity killer.....
I ran into this error today too, because of updating to the Android SDK, r17. What the links that #aneal pointed out do not discuss is how to handle external runtime libraries (such as those imported under their own heading - not an imported user library).
The easiest way to solve this problem is to change the build order in the build path. Simply right click on your project and select Properties. From here, select Java Build Path. At the top of the display, choose the tab order and export and move GoogleAdMobAdsSdk-4.3.1.jar above Android X (replacing x with the version you are using). Next, clean your project and run it. You should be good to go!
The way I solved it was by : Right clicking on the project and selecting build path. Select configure build path in the selections that appear. After that see if your libraries are there in the libraries folder and then select the order and export tab and over there select all your jar files. Then select ok and run your project.
If you're using Eclipse with Maven IDE (m2e) go to "Java Build Path" then "Order and Export" and finally check the item "Maven Dependencies" and pull it down to the BOTTOM of the list. You should do the same with project references in the same workspace.
Every time I setup the project in a new computer that happens.
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I have a rather big Android App project that is referencing several library projects. Everything was fine until i upgraded the eclipse ADT plugin to the newest version (v22). I also upgraded the SDK of course. I do not see any compile errors in eclipse, but when i run the project on the phone i get a NoClassDefFoundError.
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org.acra.ACRA
....
The arca library is included in one of the referenced library project (in the libs folder) and i can see it in the "Android Private Libraries" in the package explorer, also as i said, no compile errors. The project runs fine on everyone else's computer that did not upgrade ADT.
I have already tried a whole bunch of stuff including but not limited to:
re-install the android SDK
download a fresh ADT bundle
delete all my code an get it again from git
copy the library in question to the app project
comment out the code that uses this library - i just get the same error for the next library
all without any success, so i'm getting really desperate here.
I would be really happy if anyone could give me a hint on how to solve that problem.
Quoting Streets of Boston from his adt-dev post:
When upgrading, the 'Order and Export' of the new 'Android Private
Libraries' is not always checked. And the android-support-v4.jar is now in
this 'Android Private Libraries' section.
To fix this, go to 'Order and Export' and check 'Android Private
Libraries'. Then refresh/clean/rebuild.
After you done this 'fix' for a library project, you may need to just close
and re-open any depending project, because they may not see this 'fix'
immediately.
Give this a shot and with luck it will solve your problem.
Simply checking Android Private Libraries was not enough, I also had to install Android SDK Build-tools in Android SDK Manager.
I had also the same problem and my adt was 22.0.1. And none of the solution above worked. Further when adding a external library project to a working project.I always check the gen folder of working project and if R of external library project is there (along with package name),then only external library project is exported. And on my gen folder no packagename of external library was shown.
So I checked on project.properties file and there wasn't any external library link present android.library.reference.1= present. So I manually added the external library reference there ,even though I had added from project->properties->Java Build Path->Projects->Add. So manually editing the project.properties did all the work for me.
I have encountered a similar problem, spent about 3 hours, but none of the proposed here decisions did not help... Finally I found a source of the problem: my project files & project.properties were read-only. Eclipse is simply silently ignoring any changes in library dependencies when I doing it in the GUI!
I had the same problem. It was because of the eclipse project.
To solve it I created a new project in eclipse, copy my existing project classes and resources into it and then launched eclipse again and added my custom includes.
I had the similar issue and my answer is slightly different from CommonsWare's. Here is my screenshot:
After checking the libs back in my build started to work again.
I had also the same problem,
i) add gson lib as referecend librairies
ii) check it in java Build Path
I have a rather big Android App project that is referencing several library projects. Everything was fine until i upgraded the eclipse ADT plugin to the newest version (v22). I also upgraded the SDK of course. I do not see any compile errors in eclipse, but when i run the project on the phone i get a NoClassDefFoundError.
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org.acra.ACRA
....
The arca library is included in one of the referenced library project (in the libs folder) and i can see it in the "Android Private Libraries" in the package explorer, also as i said, no compile errors. The project runs fine on everyone else's computer that did not upgrade ADT.
I have already tried a whole bunch of stuff including but not limited to:
re-install the android SDK
download a fresh ADT bundle
delete all my code an get it again from git
copy the library in question to the app project
comment out the code that uses this library - i just get the same error for the next library
all without any success, so i'm getting really desperate here.
I would be really happy if anyone could give me a hint on how to solve that problem.
Quoting Streets of Boston from his adt-dev post:
When upgrading, the 'Order and Export' of the new 'Android Private
Libraries' is not always checked. And the android-support-v4.jar is now in
this 'Android Private Libraries' section.
To fix this, go to 'Order and Export' and check 'Android Private
Libraries'. Then refresh/clean/rebuild.
After you done this 'fix' for a library project, you may need to just close
and re-open any depending project, because they may not see this 'fix'
immediately.
Give this a shot and with luck it will solve your problem.
Simply checking Android Private Libraries was not enough, I also had to install Android SDK Build-tools in Android SDK Manager.
I had also the same problem and my adt was 22.0.1. And none of the solution above worked. Further when adding a external library project to a working project.I always check the gen folder of working project and if R of external library project is there (along with package name),then only external library project is exported. And on my gen folder no packagename of external library was shown.
So I checked on project.properties file and there wasn't any external library link present android.library.reference.1= present. So I manually added the external library reference there ,even though I had added from project->properties->Java Build Path->Projects->Add. So manually editing the project.properties did all the work for me.
I have encountered a similar problem, spent about 3 hours, but none of the proposed here decisions did not help... Finally I found a source of the problem: my project files & project.properties were read-only. Eclipse is simply silently ignoring any changes in library dependencies when I doing it in the GUI!
I had the same problem. It was because of the eclipse project.
To solve it I created a new project in eclipse, copy my existing project classes and resources into it and then launched eclipse again and added my custom includes.
I had the similar issue and my answer is slightly different from CommonsWare's. Here is my screenshot:
After checking the libs back in my build started to work again.
I had also the same problem,
i) add gson lib as referecend librairies
ii) check it in java Build Path
I have a rather big Android App project that is referencing several library projects. Everything was fine until i upgraded the eclipse ADT plugin to the newest version (v22). I also upgraded the SDK of course. I do not see any compile errors in eclipse, but when i run the project on the phone i get a NoClassDefFoundError.
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org.acra.ACRA
....
The arca library is included in one of the referenced library project (in the libs folder) and i can see it in the "Android Private Libraries" in the package explorer, also as i said, no compile errors. The project runs fine on everyone else's computer that did not upgrade ADT.
I have already tried a whole bunch of stuff including but not limited to:
re-install the android SDK
download a fresh ADT bundle
delete all my code an get it again from git
copy the library in question to the app project
comment out the code that uses this library - i just get the same error for the next library
all without any success, so i'm getting really desperate here.
I would be really happy if anyone could give me a hint on how to solve that problem.
Quoting Streets of Boston from his adt-dev post:
When upgrading, the 'Order and Export' of the new 'Android Private
Libraries' is not always checked. And the android-support-v4.jar is now in
this 'Android Private Libraries' section.
To fix this, go to 'Order and Export' and check 'Android Private
Libraries'. Then refresh/clean/rebuild.
After you done this 'fix' for a library project, you may need to just close
and re-open any depending project, because they may not see this 'fix'
immediately.
Give this a shot and with luck it will solve your problem.
Simply checking Android Private Libraries was not enough, I also had to install Android SDK Build-tools in Android SDK Manager.
I had also the same problem and my adt was 22.0.1. And none of the solution above worked. Further when adding a external library project to a working project.I always check the gen folder of working project and if R of external library project is there (along with package name),then only external library project is exported. And on my gen folder no packagename of external library was shown.
So I checked on project.properties file and there wasn't any external library link present android.library.reference.1= present. So I manually added the external library reference there ,even though I had added from project->properties->Java Build Path->Projects->Add. So manually editing the project.properties did all the work for me.
I have encountered a similar problem, spent about 3 hours, but none of the proposed here decisions did not help... Finally I found a source of the problem: my project files & project.properties were read-only. Eclipse is simply silently ignoring any changes in library dependencies when I doing it in the GUI!
I had the same problem. It was because of the eclipse project.
To solve it I created a new project in eclipse, copy my existing project classes and resources into it and then launched eclipse again and added my custom includes.
I had the similar issue and my answer is slightly different from CommonsWare's. Here is my screenshot:
After checking the libs back in my build started to work again.
I had also the same problem,
i) add gson lib as referecend librairies
ii) check it in java Build Path
Ever since upgrading my current projects to use the new R14 Tools in Eclipse, I'm now unable to debug any code that exists in my library projects.
When I hit a break point in my library project code, instead of Eclipse opening the original source file, it opens up the read-only copy of the source file contained within the JAR with the message "Source not found".
I've searched around for a solution to this, but have yet to come across anything. Does anybody else have any suggestions? It's quite a pain not being able to debug.
EDIT
The issue has came back and I'm no longer able to debug. I haven't changed any project settings around or anything. Very frustrating.
Tried all of the above and it did not work for me, however the workaround detailed here did.
http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=20731
Start debugging, and run until you hit a breakpoint (and precisely get a .class file instead of the .java you would like to have)
Right click in the Debug view of the Debug perspective (for example on the call stack), and choose "Edit Source Lookup Path"
Add all your projects above "Default", via "Add..." > "Java project" > "Select All"
(I'm using ADT 15.0.2 preview from http://tools.android.com/download)
After having this issue as well and doing a little research, I came across this thread and another one that tipped me off. I was pulling my hair out already.
It turns out that the problem is with the build order of your projects (mine was anyway). Since ADT/SDK v14 changed the way library projects are referenced, the build order needs to be correct. Make sure all of the libraries your app uses are built first. I just moved the "src" and "gen" folders for each of my projects to the bottom and now it builds the library first and I am able to debug it and view the source of my library files through the main project.
In case someone doesn't know where to do this, in Eclipse, right click on your project and "Build Path" and then click "Configure Build Path". Then, on the "Order and Export" tab, move the two folders for your project to the bottom of the list below your libraries. I did this for all of my projects and the library projects.
You can also do it globally in Eclipse from Windows->Preferences->General->Workspace->Build Order and moving your library projects to the top. I think the build order defined in each project will override this though, so you may want to do it in both places to solve the issue now and for future projects.
I had the same problem in a project today. The project consists of an app which has two library dependencies. I could not see code during debugging and when using auto-completion when overriding methods Eclipse was unable to deduce proper argument names.
First of all, the problem manifested itself by showing the the 'gen' folder was used as the one that contained the source. To check whether this is the same issue go to your app project, open the Android dependencies and have a look at the properties of the your library dependencies. Location path said /libraryprojectname/gen.
If this is also your problem then go to the 'Order and Export' tab of each library project and move the 'gen' item below the 'src' item. As soon as you click OK Eclipse will work a bit and when you check the Android dependency properties the location path should say: /libraryprojectname/src. Open click the dependency and open any class inside the jar. It should show the source.
I am using ADT plugin 20.0.3 with Android SDK Tools 20.0.3 and Android SDK Platform Tools 14.
The following worked for me on Eclipse Juno:
In Project Properties/Java Build Path:
In the Projects tab, added my library projects.
In the Order and Export tab, moved my library projects to the top, and checked them
Not sure if it's relevant, but Android SDK tools is rev 20.0.3 and Android SDK platform tools is 14.
I assume you are opeining library project and there you put brakepoint.
Try this: On main project open Library Projects->[yourlibrary.jar]->[yourfile.class] from Package Explorer, and then in .class file put brakepoints.
This works for me at least :)
Sometimes this happens to me. Not sure about the reason but the way I solve is:
Remove the main project from eclipse. -- Closs Eclipse -- Delete the jar file in the library project -- Open Eclipse -- Wait for the library project to compile -- Import the main project
This problem also occurs with release 21 of ADT inside Juno. As a workaround, in the "debug" view of the debug perspective (where you see threads and method invocation traces), right click and edit source lookup path.
In order to implement different versions of our UI we broke our program up into UI specific code and a common library project that has everything else. Up until yesterday when I updated to ADT 14 everything was working fine. Now I can't build. I keep getting the error "The container 'Library Projects' references non existing library 'path to the bin folder of my common project and the name of the project.jar'
I've been all over the web and tried everything I can think of to fix this to no avail. Can someone help me out? I'm basically stuck at this point.
Maybe you have the same issues I had when switching to the new ADT:
In my previous setup I had some resources split between the library and the main project. The library project would not compile error free on its own but only in combination with the main project which added the missing resources.
It doesn't work like this any more.
The library project must compile completely error free now. When it does the build process will create a <lib_project_name>.jar in the bin folder of the library project.
If the jar file is not created ( thus the build process of the library project failed for some reason - eg. because the changes in the R.java file (see http://tools.android.com/recent/buildchangesinrevision14 )) you will get the error message you described.
Also, I had to manually remove the <lib_project>_src from the project.
I've had a problem with a few different projects where I did the fixes suggested in the other answer, but they were only fixed temporarily.
Every time I reopened Eclipse or did a Clean on a project, the "Library Projects" directory would disappear, and I would have to open the project properties, remove the library, and add it again.
I solved this the hard way by creating a new project and copying everything into it.
Then I found an easy way to solve it. Right click the project, Refactor-->Rename. You can rename it back afterwards. This fixed it.
Check out the article "Changes to Library Projects in Android SDK Tools, r14" ( http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2011/10/changes-to-library-projects-in-android.html ) on the Android Developers blog.
E.g. #P.Melch: "I had to manually remove the _src from the project" should be done as follows:
To fix the project, you must remove the extraneous source folders with the following steps:
Right click source folder and choose Build Path > Remove from Build
path.
A dialog will pop up. In it, make sure to check “Also unlink the folder from the project” to completely remove the folder.
You have to update the Android SDK in Android SDK Manager
Android SDK Tools Intalled
Android SDK Plataforms Installed
Android SDK Builds Installed