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NoClassDefFoundError - Eclipse and Android
I'm seeing this question is getting asked a lot in many different contexts. Perhaps we can set some strategies for locating and fixing it? I'm noobish myself so all I can contribute are horror stories and questions, sorry...
It seems this is thrown when a class is visible at compile time but not at run time... how can this happen?
In my case I am developing an app that uses the Google APIs, in Eclipse, for the Android platform. I've configured the Project Properties / Java Build Path / Libraries to include the gdata .jars and all is well. When I execute in the emulator I get a force close and the logcat shows a NoClassDefFoundError on a simple new ContactsService("myApp"); I've also tried a new CalendarService("myApp") with the same results.
Is it possible or desirable to statically bind at compile time to avoid the problem?
How could dynamic binding of an add-on library work in the mobile environment anyway? Either it has to be bound into my .apk or else I need to "install" it? ... hmmm.
Advice much appreciated.
It seems this is thrown when a class
is visible at compile time but not at
run time... how can this happen?
The build classpath may include JARs that are not being packaged into the APK.
Is it possible or desirable to
statically bind at compile time to
avoid the problem?
It is possible, desirable, and necessary.
Outside of Eclipse, you just put the JARs you need in libs/ in your project, compile with Ant, and you are done.
Inside of Eclipse, one pattern I have had students use with success is to put the JARs you need in libs/ in your project, add them as JARs to the build path (note: not external JARs), and they get packaged as part of the APK. Note, though, that I do not personally use Eclipse, and so my experience with it is limited.
For those having problem I was having the same error with my app. what I did to solve that was create a new project and copy my resource and source folders along with my manifest file into the new project (I deleted in advance those within the new project created) and voila.
When I got this, the problem was actually deeper in the queue; Dalvik converter had failed to convert some of the referenced libraries and still Eclipse allowed me to launch the project.
Check the Android SDK console to see if there are any errors reported.
In my case, I'm using my own library (MyLib) shared between 2 apps. App A was closed when I added a new class to the library.
When I opened App A to work on it, Eclipse recognised the new class, and I was able to reference it. However on running I got the error.
It turned out that the imported library folder in App A (named something like MyLib_src) didn't reflect the changes made to my library project (MyLib).
To solve this I refreshed App A, the changes reflected, and Android could build my project correctly.
I have found no reference to this version of the problem, so thought I would add it to this list.
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Is it my code or is running Eclipse on Ubuntu linux (or any other distro variant) causing this error message to show very often? Either when trying to compile, build project, or an equivalent, the error comes from the IDE itself. I read many questions in here that asking about maybe the same case that I have, like if the error message shows up you need to restart Eclipse and the error won't appear again.
Now I have one project thats using #override code like OnCreate, OnPause, OnStop and others on my script MainActivity.java. There is nothing wrong with the code, but everytime I try to run it as an android application, Eclipse shows an error like this:
Conversion to Dalvik format failed: Unable to execute dex: Multiple dex files define Landroid/support/annotation/AnimRes;
Why is that? Has anyone had the same problem and discovered the answer? Many thanks.
Regards,
Indra.
This is due to multiple occurrences of the same jar file getting added to your project. Generally, it is very difficult to find out multiple occurrences.
It would be better to remove the classpath of all the reference Android projects which our project is referring, and add them from the scratch.
Follow this procedure:
Build the Android libraries first and make sure the jars required for building the Android projects are not exported
Add the Android libraries in the project.properties of the Android project
Compile the required project
When a compilation issue comes, add the required jar
Don't forget to export the jar
I think it is related to the fact that there may be 2 jar files containing the same content. Check your build path and library projects and if you see same thing referenced twice remove it from one place.
I think you have to clean your project and rebuild it. because The temp values might have been available. When you clean it, this app will work and you can take build now
So I have a project that works totally fine in one workspace on my machine. I push it to the repository so everyone else can work on it. I go to pull it down making sure all the changes are good. I import the project into a new workspace and using eclipse with autobuild on it produces no errors.
I go to the command line and run ant clean release on the project and right before it gets to run crunch on the assets the build fails with a mulitple dex files define error. Ive checked the project high and low and compared to the other copy of it in the original workspace but for what ever reason I cant get it to build. I erase the bin and gen folders and remove all the imports and basically leave just the project, run clean in eclipse, and still get a dex define error related to one of the lib projects classes. Ive tried to find where extra copies could be but I dont find anything.
googling around for the past few days hasnt helped as the normal solutions to such a problem havent worked for me. So what is the best way to figure out where the extra class definitions are coming from so I can get rid of them and fix the repository so I can use it correctly. I have a feeling its related to one of the files in the project that I should be excluding in my gitignore but Im not sure which that would be. Any help on the matter would be greatly appreciated cause this has eaten quite a bit of time of just messing around.
When you have more than one class with the same package name this error would raise.
One of the common source of this issue is when you have for example different version on the same library.
For example your add ActionbarSherlock which in 'libs forder has it's own support library and also your project has another version of support library in it's libs folder. In such a cases you should put one version of support library.jar to all different libraries that you using it.
I hope this could help you.
I didnt find the root of the problem but I figured out a fix. I moved all the support libraries to a new root folder completely away from the android project. Once I did that and cleaned everything I then ran ant clean release and the project built fine.
I use Eclipse for android development and trying to use IntelliJ. I have successfully run the application once. But now, I couldn't seem to rebuild the example Hello World application. What am I missing here? The R.java is not rebuilding anymore. Here is a screenshot of the errors.
And here is my setting
This happened to me because I've marked source folders incorrectly.
Under project settings once you click on particular module, Just check whether you have Mark any additional folders as source folders.
Check the screenshot, By default it should be something like below, All mark as buttons should be unchecked
By mistake I've checked Mark as: "Source" button and I got this error. Just uncheck it.
R and BuildConfig are autogenerated by the android build system. Maybe you somehow copied an autogenerated version of your eclipse project into the idea project and then idea generated second ones. By default, idea will use a folder called gen for these files which is marked as a source folder. Make sure there are no other source folder containings these files.
You can quickly find classes by pressing Ctrl+N and starting to type the name of the class. If you find duplicate results, delete any of them and let idea regenerate the correct ones.
Unfortunately you may not like my answer, but my project is due yesterday and I don't have time to check every setting to fix the issue.
The way I resolved it is to re-create a new project, only copying the src, res, lib etc across. This was painfully difficult and presents other issues (manifest files and run/debug configs) , but proved relatively short as opposed to creating a new project ANYWAY and sifting through build options that may or may not be valid.
I encountered the problem while trying to add the KSOAP2 libs to the IDEA project, and although KSOAP has nothing to do with the problem, I may have imported them in the incorrect manner the first time and created extra self referential dependancies. This makes the most sense, but trying to figure out how to undo it would be next to impossible.
you can try to delete the r and buildconfig files from the com/x/x folder under android -> java
that fixed it for me.
I'm a bit new to Java / Processing and I opened up a project/workspace with the following errors:
is missing required library: '/Applications/Processing.app/Contents/Resources/Java/libraries/javamail/smtp.jar'
/javamail/dsn.jar
/javamail/mailapi.jar
/javamail/pop3.jar
I have the Processing app installed, but it's been a while...do I just need to upgrade processing or is there another place I need to go to get these .jar files?
I'm using Eclipse and there seems to be quite a list of referenced jar files (some broken)
It's telling you that there used to be a library at
/Applications/Processing.app/Contents/Resources/Java/libraries/javamail/smtp.jar
but it's no longer there, or possibly you opened a project that somebody else edited on a different machine where things were laid out differently.
Open the project build-path dialog and make sure all the libraries point to the correct locations.
If the problem still persist, try doing clean and build in eclipse. It might help.
Eclipse is giving me a few problems.
After a cold start and the loading of android libs, Eclipse underline the import statements or says that java.lang.Object couldn't be found.
Closing it and reopening often fix the problem. If it doesn't, another close-open fix it definitely. But it shows at each cold-start.
It also gives
"The type java.lang.Enum cannot be resolved. It is indirectly referenced from required .class files"
"The project cannot be build until build path errors are resolved"
But if i restart the build path errors and the enum problem are not show any more(sometimes the enum proble got fixed some time after eclipse's loading finished)
"Project 'xxx' is missing required source folder: 'gen' "
that should be generated automatically generated while building, and still restarting will fix them
In addition, in many projects, while building or cleaning, eclipse says that it couldn't delete the bin/. directory. I noticed that that directory is read-only, and if i try to remove the attribute(even from dos), it immediately return to read-only.
This problems aren't show-stoppers, i still can code and i still can get my apps exported, but it is quite annoying to have to restart eclipse a few times before being able to use it(and eclipse isn't that fast at opening), and i would really know how to fix it.
I searched in the net a bit, but i dind't found nothing useful or that worked.
Is there a way to fix them?
I didn't "unistalled"(it is just stored in a directory) Eclipse, since i should then reinstall android sdk, mercurial plugin, and re download and set up a few libraries i use in quite all my project, and i really hope there is another way.
final notes:
everything works when this problems doesn't show: the app works, logcat too, the right device is used to install the app, so i think java and android sdks are installed just right
I had that problem before so I just saved my projects to a different file and uninstalled everything ( java, android sdk, eclipse ). When I reinstalled it all I put the android sdk on the root of my c drive as I have a windows machine and then instead of picking where java was installed I let it do its own thing. I dont use a mercurial plug in but your "read only" problem could be related to that. Its possible your downloading files that are "read only" and there for you have no way to alter them. Im guessing since you said youve been programing you already know how to set the build paths and stuff. It might just be where everything is installed or something silly like privilege settings on your machine.
What were you using the mercurial plug in for anyway? just curious :)
Have you included the java lib in your project or? For a couple of weeks ago I sat with an project where i absolutly needed some of the methods, so because android just have some of the java lib I imported the need libs and used that.