Android app crashes - Unable to instantiate activity ComponentInfo

Question

need your help!

I am new in Android and for some reason my app stopped working and crashes right on startup.

I am not sure if it is related but I've added maven to the project. Here's the error log:

06-23 14:32:18.380: E/AndroidRuntime(1775): FATAL EXCEPTION: main
06-23 14:32:18.380: E/AndroidRuntime(1775): Process: com.app.test, PID: 1775
06-23 14:32:18.380: E/AndroidRuntime(1775): java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to instantiate activity ComponentInfo{com.app.test/com.test.activities.SplashActivity}: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: Didn't find class "com.test.activities.SplashActivity" on path: DexPathList[[zip file "/data/app/com.app.test-2/base.apk"],nativeLibraryDirectories=[/vendor/lib, /system/lib]]
06-23 14:32:18.380: E/AndroidRuntime(1775):     at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2236)
06-23 14:32:18.380: E/AndroidRuntime(1775):     at android.app.ActivityThread.handleLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2390)
06-23 14:32:18.380: E/AndroidRuntime(1775):     at android.app.ActivityThread.access$800(ActivityThread.java:151)
06-23 14:32:18.380: E/AndroidRuntime(1775):     at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:1303)
06-23 14:32:18.380: E/AndroidRuntime(1775):     at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:102)
06-23 14:32:18.380: E/AndroidRuntime(1775):     at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:135)
06-23 14:32:18.380: E/AndroidRuntime(1775):     at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:5257)
06-23 14:32:18.380: E/AndroidRuntime(1775):     at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
06-23 14:32:18.380: E/AndroidRuntime(1775):     at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:372)
06-23 14:32:18.380: E/AndroidRuntime(1775):     at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:903)
06-23 14:32:18.380: E/AndroidRuntime(1775):     at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:698)
06-23 14:32:18.380: E/AndroidRuntime(1775): Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: Didn't find class "com.test.activities.SplashActivity" on path: DexPathList[[zip file "/data/app/com.app.test-2/base.apk"],nativeLibraryDirectories=[/vendor/lib, /system/lib]]
06-23 14:32:18.380: E/AndroidRuntime(1775):     at dalvik.system.BaseDexClassLoader.findClass(BaseDexClassLoader.java:56)
06-23 14:32:18.380: E/AndroidRuntime(1775):     at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:511)
06-23 14:32:18.380: E/AndroidRuntime(1775):     at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:469)
06-23 14:32:18.380: E/AndroidRuntime(1775):     at android.app.Instrumentation.newActivity(Instrumentation.java:1066)
06-23 14:32:18.380: E/AndroidRuntime(1775):     at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2226)
06-23 14:32:18.380: E/AndroidRuntime(1775):     ... 10 more
06-23 14:32:18.380: E/AndroidRuntime(1775):     Suppressed: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: com.test.activities.SplashActivity
06-23 14:32:18.380: E/AndroidRuntime(1775):         at java.lang.Class.classForName(Native Method)
06-23 14:32:18.380: E/AndroidRuntime(1775):         at java.lang.BootClassLoader.findClass(ClassLoader.java:781)
06-23 14:32:18.380: E/AndroidRuntime(1775):         at java.lang.BootClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:841)
06-23 14:32:18.380: E/AndroidRuntime(1775):         at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:504)
06-23 14:32:18.380: E/AndroidRuntime(1775):         ... 13 more
06-23 14:32:18.380: E/AndroidRuntime(1775):     Caused by: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: Class not found using the boot class loader; no stack available

here's the manifest:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<manifest
    xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    package="com.test"
    android:versionCode="1"
    android:versionName="1.0" >

<uses-sdk
        android:minSdkVersion="11"
        android:targetSdkVersion="22" />
    <uses-permission 
        android:name = "android.permission.INTERNET"/>
    <uses-permission 
        android:name = "android.permission.BLUETOOTH_ADMIN"/>

    <application
        android:allowBackup="true"
        android:icon="@drawable/ic_launcher"
        android:label="@string/app_name"
        android:theme="@style/AppTheme" >

        <activity
            android:name="com.test.activities.SplashActivity"
            android:label="@string/app_name" >
            <intent-filter>
                <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />
                <category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
            </intent-filter>
        </activity>
        <activity
            android:name="com.test.activities.MainActivity"
            android:label="@string/app_name" >
            <intent-filter>
                  <category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT" />
            </intent-filter>
        </activity>
        <activity
            android:name="com.test.activities.MainMenuActivity"
            android:label="@string/title_activity_main_menu" >
        </activity>
    </application>

and here's the activity:

public class SplashActivity extends Activity{

    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_splash);

        Thread StartTimer = new Thread(){
            public void run(){
                try {
                    sleep(2000);
                    Intent main = new Intent(SplashActivity.this, MainActivity.class);
                    startActivity(main);
                    finish(); //kills the current activity
                }
                catch (InterruptedException ex){}
            }       
        };
        StartTimer.start();
    }
}

Here is the pom.xml

<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
  <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
  <groupId>test</groupId>
  <artifactId>test</artifactId>
  <version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
  <build>
    <sourceDirectory>src</sourceDirectory>
    <plugins>
      <plugin>
        <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
        <version>3.1</version>
        <configuration>
          <source>1.6</source>
          <target>1.6</target>
        </configuration>
      </plugin>
    </plugins>
  </build>
  <dependencies>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>com.squareup.okhttp</groupId>
        <artifactId>mockwebserver</artifactId>
        <version>2.4.0</version>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
    <groupId>com.google.code.gson</groupId>
    <artifactId>gson</artifactId>
    <version>2.3.1</version>
</dependency>

  </dependencies>
</project>

also here are the build path settings:

Dir structure:

Answer 1

As I know Maven build systems waiting some pathes, check you project, your sources should be located somewhere like:

/src/main/java/com/test in your case.

Is your project have such structure?

And also I recommend to name groupid as "com.test"

https://spring.io/guides/gs/maven-android/