Android Widget: Unable to instantiate activity ComponentInfo, java.lang.ClassCastException

I'm trying to make an widget, which changes text every minute, but am struggling to get things working. I am getting the error in the Title.

Log file:

10-25 12:22:54.290: E/AndroidRuntime(21988): FATAL EXCEPTION: main
10-25 12:22:54.290: E/AndroidRuntime(21988): java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to instantiate activity ComponentInfo{com.example.simpletext/com.example.simpletext.MainActivity}: java.lang.ClassCastException: com.example.simpletext.MainActivity cannot be cast to android.app.Activity
10-25 12:22:54.290: E/AndroidRuntime(21988):    at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2034)
10-25 12:22:54.290: E/AndroidRuntime(21988):    at android.app.ActivityThread.handleLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2135)
10-25 12:22:54.290: E/AndroidRuntime(21988):    at android.app.ActivityThread.access$700(ActivityThread.java:140)
10-25 12:22:54.290: E/AndroidRuntime(21988):    at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:1237)
10-25 12:22:54.290: E/AndroidRuntime(21988):    at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99)
10-25 12:22:54.290: E/AndroidRuntime(21988):    at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:137)
10-25 12:22:54.290: E/AndroidRuntime(21988):    at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:4921)
10-25 12:22:54.290: E/AndroidRuntime(21988):    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
10-25 12:22:54.290: E/AndroidRuntime(21988):    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:511)
10-25 12:22:54.290: E/AndroidRuntime(21988):    at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:1027)
10-25 12:22:54.290: E/AndroidRuntime(21988):    at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:794)
10-25 12:22:54.290: E/AndroidRuntime(21988):    at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)
10-25 12:22:54.290: E/AndroidRuntime(21988): Caused by: java.lang.ClassCastException: com.example.simpletext.MainActivity cannot be cast to android.app.Activity
10-25 12:22:54.290: E/AndroidRuntime(21988):    at android.app.Instrumentation.newActivity(Instrumentation.java:1068)
10-25 12:22:54.290: E/AndroidRuntime(21988):    at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2025)
10-25 12:22:54.290: E/AndroidRuntime(21988):    ... 11 more

Manifest:

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

    <uses-sdk
        android:minSdkVersion="8"
        android:targetSdkVersion="18" />

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

        <receiver
            android:name="MyWidgetProvider"
            android:icon="@drawable/ic_launcher"
            android:label="Simple Text" >
            <intent-filter>
                <action android:name="android.appwidget.action.APPWIDGET_UPDATE" />
            </intent-filter>

            <meta-data
                android:name="android.appwidget.provider"
                android:resource="@xml/widget_info" />
        </receiver>

        <activity
            android:name="com.example.simpletext.MainActivity"
            android:label="@string/app_name" >
            <intent-filter>
                <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />

                <category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
            </intent-filter>
        </activity>
    </application>

</manifest>

And the classes MainActivity, where I'm trying to update the widget every 60s (is it because I don't have any onRecive method in it? - i set the layout in the Updejt.class thats why I assume I don't need one):

package com.example.simpletext;

import java.util.Timer;

import android.appwidget.AppWidgetManager;
import android.appwidget.AppWidgetProvider;
import android.content.Context;

public class MainActivity extends AppWidgetProvider{

    @Override
    public void onUpdate(Context context, AppWidgetManager appWidgetManager,
            int[] appWidgetIds) {
        // TODO Auto-generated method stub
        Timer timer = new Timer();
        timer.scheduleAtFixedRate(new UpdejtText(context, appWidgetManager), 1, 60000);

        super.onUpdate(context, appWidgetManager, appWidgetIds);
    }

}

the class UpdejtText:

package com.example.simpletext;

import java.util.TimerTask;

import android.appwidget.AppWidgetManager;
import android.content.ComponentName;
import android.content.Context;
import android.widget.RemoteViews;

public class UpdejtText extends TimerTask{
    RemoteViews remoteViews;
    AppWidgetManager appWidgetManager;
    ComponentName thisWidget;
    value = 0;

public UpdejtText(Context context, AppWidgetManager appWidgetManager) {

    this.appWidgetManager = appWidgetManager;
    remoteViews = new RemoteViews(context.getPackageName(), R.layout.activity_main);
    thisWidget = new ComponentName(context, UpdejtText.class);
    value= someValue();
}

@Override
public void run(){
    remoteViews.setTextViewText(R.id.textView1, Pomagac.getText1(value));
    remoteViews.setTextViewText(R.id.textView2, Pomagac.getText2(value));
    appWidgetManager.updateAppWidget(thisWidget, remoteViews);
}

}

Help appreciated!