Has there been any news on this error? I am having the same thing happen to me and I have been unable to find out what could be causing it. Thank you.
On Friday, March 6, 2009 10:39:40 AM UTC-8, droozen wrote: > > Provider class public. Check: public class SavingsDbAdapter extends > ContentProvider > > :) And I implement all the methods for a ContentProvider that Eclipse > asked me to. I do have some static code that runs first, as the > NotesList example does at the bottom of the class. That code seems to > run fine before I hit the exception. I also have added the > android:multiprocess parameter to true, but I wouldn't expect that to > have any effect either way on my problem. > > On Mar 6, 12:33 pm, Marco Nelissen <[email protected]> wrote: > > Did you forget to mark your provider class as public? > > > > On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 10:25 AM, droozen <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Hence the InstantiationException. I get that. But WHY can't it be > > > instantiated or, the real kicker, how can I get it to work? From what > > > I can tell, and from what I keep reading in everything I can find on > > > ContentProviders, everything looks fine with my setup. I don't even > > > know where to look to try to fix my setup. Has anyone else ever > > > encountered this and figured out why your provider couldn't be > > > instantiated? > > > > > On Mar 6, 12:10 pm, Dianne Hackborn <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> When a process is started, all content providers that run in it are > > >> instantiated. Apparently your new content provider can't be > instantiated. > > > > >> On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 5:51 AM, droozen <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > >> > So, I was trying to create my own ContentProvider. I want a > recurring > > >> > notification (say, once a day) so I discovered that I should be > able > > >> > to do this by setting a repeating alarm that my BroadcastReceiver > > >> > class can pick up. Because it's going to perform some calcs, it > > >> > immediately starts a service. So far, so good. > > > > >> > My service will need to access some data in the SQLite database in > my > > >> > application. So I made a content provider to provide that > > >> > functionality. However, after making the content provider and > adding > > >> > the provider to my manifest between the application tags: > > > > >> > <provider android:name="--Fully qualified path name to > ContentProvider > > >> > class--" android:authorities="--authority to be used--"></provider> > > > > >> > Now my application, when it starts up, immediately fails with a > > >> > InstantiationException for my ContentProvider. Any idea what I'm > doing > > >> > wrong? Or what else I need to be doing right? > > > > >> -- > > >> Dianne Hackborn > > >> Android framework engineer > > >> [email protected] > > > > >> Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time > to > > >> provide private support. All such questions should be posted on > public > > >> forums, where I and others can see and answer them. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
