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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
