android application crashing with error java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to instantiate activity ComponentInfo

Ishank Gulati Published at Dev

Ishank Gulati

I am developing an android application. When i am trying to run it on emulator it crashes. It is my first android application and I am not able to find out the cause of error. Can anybody point out the mistake?

LogCat

    Shutting down VM
FATAL EXCEPTION: main
 Process: io.github.ishankgulati.breakout, PID: 3589
 java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to instantiate activity ComponentInfo{io.github.ishankgulati.breakout/io.github.ishankgulati.breakout.BreakoutGame}: java.lang.IllegalAccessException: void io.github.ishankgulati.breakout.BreakoutGame.<init>() is not accessible from java.lang.Class<android.app.Instrumentation>
     at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2327)
     at android.app.ActivityThread.handleLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2476)
     at android.app.ActivityThread.-wrap11(ActivityThread.java)
     at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:1344)
     at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:102)
     at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:148)
     at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:5417)
     at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
     at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:726)
     at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:616)
  Caused by: java.lang.IllegalAccessException: void io.github.ishankgulati.breakout.BreakoutGame.<init>() is not accessible from java.lang.Class<android.app.Instrumentation>
     at java.lang.Class.newInstance(Native Method)
     at android.app.Instrumentation.newActivity(Instrumentation.java:1067)
     at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2317)
     at android.app.ActivityThread.handleLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2476) 
     at android.app.ActivityThread.-wrap11(ActivityThread.java) 
     at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:1344) 
     at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:102) 
     at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:148) 
     at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:5417) 
     at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method) 
     at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:726) 
     at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:616) 
12-29 19:10:34.689 3589-3589/? I/Process: Sending signal. PID: 3589 SIG: 9

You can have a look at my project here.

The above issue has been resolved but still application is crashing.

LogCat

I/art: Not late-enabling -Xcheck:jni (already on)
I/art: Late-enabling JIT
I/art: JIT created with code_cache_capacity=2MB compile_threshold=1000
W/System: ClassLoader referenced unknown path: /data/app/io.github.ishankgulati.breakout-1/lib/x86
E/WVMExtractor: Failed to open libwvm.so: dlopen failed: library "libwvm.so" not found
I/OMXClient: Using client-side OMX mux.
D/MediaPlayer: setSubtitleAnchor in MediaPlayer
W/art: Suspending all threads took: 33.410ms
I/OMXClient: Using client-side OMX mux.
D/AndroidRuntime: Shutting down VM
E/AndroidRuntime: FATAL EXCEPTION: main
Process: io.github.ishankgulati.breakout, PID: 2303
java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to start activity ComponentInfo{io.github.ishankgulati.breakout/io.github.ishankgulati.breakout.BreakoutGame}: java.lang.NullPointerException: Attempt to write to field 'float android.graphics.RectF.left' on a null object reference
   at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2416)
   at android.app.ActivityThread.handleLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2476)
   at android.app.ActivityThread.-wrap11(ActivityThread.java)
   at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:1344)
   at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:102)
   at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:148)
   at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:5417)
   at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
   at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:726)
   at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:616)
Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException: Attempt to write to field 'float android.graphics.RectF.left' on a null object reference
   at io.github.ishankgulati.breakout.MainMenu.<init>(MainMenu.java:33)
   at io.github.ishankgulati.breakout.BreakoutGame$BreakoutView.<init>(BreakoutGame.java:84)
   at io.github.ishankgulati.breakout.BreakoutGame$BreakoutView.<init>(BreakoutGame.java:51)
   at io.github.ishankgulati.breakout.BreakoutGame.onCreate(BreakoutGame.java:29)
   at android.app.Activity.performCreate(Activity.java:6237)
   at android.app.Instrumentation.callActivityOnCreate(Instrumentation.java:1107)
   at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2369)
   at android.app.ActivityThread.handleLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2476) 
   at android.app.ActivityThread.-wrap11(ActivityThread.java) 
   at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:1344) 
   at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:102) 
   at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:148) 
   at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:5417) 
   at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method) 
   at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:726) 
   at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:616)

Blackbelt

your BreakoutGame

public class BreakoutGame extends Activity{

is overriding the default constructor chaining its visibility. This is causing the exception. Don't do it. Every initialization, yo want to do in your Constructor can be done in one of the callback called by the framework. E.g onCreate

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