I have stepped through the Android Room with a View – Java codelab and wound up with an error that causes the app to crash before it loads (see “fatal exception”, below). Thinking perhaps I did something wrong, I copied the contents of each of the .java solution files from github.
I tried creating overloading the WordViewModel class with another constructor that took no arguments, but that only created more issues.
public WordViewModel( ) {
super(new Application());
mRepository = new WordRepository(new Application());
mAllWords = mRepository.getAllWords();
}
Fatal Exception:
E/AndroidRuntime: FATAL EXCEPTION: main
Process: com.example.android.roomwordssample, PID: 32145
java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to start activity ComponentInfo{com.example.android.roomwordssample/com.example.android.roomwordssample.MainActivity}: java.lang.RuntimeException: Cannot create an instance of class com.example.android.roomwordssample.WordViewModel
at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:3449)
at android.app.ActivityThread.handleLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:3601)
at android.app.servertransaction.LaunchActivityItem.execute(LaunchActivityItem.java:85)
at android.app.servertransaction.TransactionExecutor.executeCallbacks(TransactionExecutor.java:135)
at android.app.servertransaction.TransactionExecutor.execute(TransactionExecutor.java:95)
at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:2066)
at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:106)
at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:223)
at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:7656)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
at com.android.internal.os.RuntimeInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(RuntimeInit.java:592)
at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:947)
Caused by: java.lang.RuntimeException: Cannot create an instance of class com.example.android.roomwordssample.WordViewModel
at androidx.lifecycle.ViewModelProvider$NewInstanceFactory.create(ViewModelProvider.java:221)
at androidx.lifecycle.ViewModelProvider.get(ViewModelProvider.java:187)
at androidx.lifecycle.ViewModelProvider.get(ViewModelProvider.java:150)
at com.example.android.roomwordssample.MainActivity.onCreate(MainActivity.java:32)
at android.app.Activity.performCreate(Activity.java:8000)
at android.app.Activity.performCreate(Activity.java:7984)
at android.app.Instrumentation.callActivityOnCreate(Instrumentation.java:1309)
at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:3422)
at android.app.ActivityThread.handleLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:3601)
at android.app.servertransaction.LaunchActivityItem.execute(LaunchActivityItem.java:85)
at android.app.servertransaction.TransactionExecutor.executeCallbacks(TransactionExecutor.java:135)
at android.app.servertransaction.TransactionExecutor.execute(TransactionExecutor.java:95)
at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:2066)
at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:106)
at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:223)
at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:7656)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
at com.android.internal.os.RuntimeInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(RuntimeInit.java:592)
at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:947)
Caused by: java.lang.InstantiationException: java.lang.Class<com.example.android.roomwordssample.WordViewModel> has no zero argument constructor
at java.lang.Class.newInstance(Native Method)
at androidx.lifecycle.ViewModelProvider$NewInstanceFactory.create(ViewModelProvider.java:219)
at androidx.lifecycle.ViewModelProvider.get(ViewModelProvider.java:187)
at androidx.lifecycle.ViewModelProvider.get(ViewModelProvider.java:150)
at com.example.android.roomwordssample.MainActivity.onCreate(MainActivity.java:32)
at android.app.Activity.performCreate(Activity.java:8000)
at android.app.Activity.performCreate(Activity.java:7984)
at android.app.Instrumentation.callActivityOnCreate(Instrumentation.java:1309)
at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:3422)
at android.app.ActivityThread.handleLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:3601)
at android.app.servertransaction.LaunchActivityItem.execute(LaunchActivityItem.java:85)
at android.app.servertransaction.TransactionExecutor.executeCallbacks(TransactionExecutor.java:135)
at android.app.servertransaction.TransactionExecutor.execute(TransactionExecutor.java:95)
at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:2066)
at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:106)
at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:223)
at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:7656)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
at com.android.internal.os.RuntimeInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(RuntimeInit.java:592)
at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:947)
Any ideas what could be triggering this?
Update:
Also tried copying the app and project build.gradle files over from the solutions on github. To let it compile I had to change the minSdkVersion to 21 (from 20) to resolve a build error regarding vector graphics. Also changed the dependency to gradle version 4.1.0 (from 3.4.3 in the solution). Compiles, but running the app triggers the same error as above.
Update #2 Also tried copying over gradle-wrapper.properties (which references gradle-5.1.1-all distribution) and restoring the buid.gradle to the solution’s version (which references Gradle plugin version 3.4.3). Still no dice.
Update #3
I downloaded the entire solution project from GitHub and imported it into a new project in Android Studio. It compiles but generates the exact same no zero argument constructor error.
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Answer
Found a fix posted on the GitHub issues tab for this project which resolved this for me:
Simply open MainActivity.java and within onCreate, find:
mWordViewModel = new ViewModelProvider(this).get(WordViewModel.class)
And change it to:
mWordViewModel = new ViewModelProvider(this,ViewModelProvider.AndroidViewModelFactory.getInstance(this.getApplication())).get(WordViewModel.class);