Android Studio Manifest error - saying package does not exist

Question

I refactored my package name and put my CuteMainActivityin the package org.azurespot.cutemain.CuteMainActivity. Plus rearranged all my other classes. So now I get a red error on the .CuteMainActivity part in my Manifest, where the activity should launch.

I also changed the top package name of my Manifest to the new one: org.azurespot, and also changed my applicationID in my build.gradle file to the new package name org.azurespot too. Then I rebuilt, cleaned, and even tried invalidate and restart to my project but nothing is getting rid of this red error. I also tried to assign the new package/activity name to launch in my run configurations, and got this error:

Launching application: org.azurespot/org.azurespot.cutemain.CuteMainActivity.
DEVICE SHELL COMMAND: am start -n "org.azurespot/org.azurespot.cutemain.CuteMainActivity" -a android.intent.action.MAIN -c android.intent.category.LAUNCHER
Starting: Intent { act=android.intent.action.MAIN cat=[android.intent.category.LAUNCHER] cmp=org.azurespot/.cutemain.CuteMainActivity }
Error type 3
Error: Activity class {org.azurespot/org.azurespot.cutemain.CuteMainActivity} does not exist

One strange thing, is that my package name has the word (androidTest) beside it. Would that make things not work? Usually studio creates a regular package name and a package_name (androidTest), but in the refactoring, I only see this (androidTest) one.

I have been researching this problem for a while, but nothing seems to work. Any suggestions? Thank you.

Manifest.java

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    package="org.azurespot" >

    <application
        android:allowBackup="true"
        android:icon="@drawable/ic_launcher"
        android:label="@string/app_name"
        android:theme="@style/AppTheme" >
        <activity
            android:name=".CuteMainActivity" //This has a red error
            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>

LogCat after changed Manifest name to ".cutemain.CuteMainActivity"

1480-1480/org.azurespot E/AndroidRuntime﹕ FATAL EXCEPTION: main
    Process: org.azurespot, PID: 1480
    java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to instantiate activity ComponentInfo{org.azurespot/org.azurespot.cutemain.CuteMainActivity}: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: Didn't find class "org.azurespot.cutemain.CuteMainActivity" on path: DexPathList[[zip file "/data/app/org.azurespot-2.apk"],nativeLibraryDirectories=[/data/app-lib/org.azurespot-2, /system/lib]]
            at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2110)
            at android.app.ActivityThread.handleLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2233)
            at android.app.ActivityThread.access$800(ActivityThread.java:135)
            at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:1196)
            at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:102)
            at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:136)
            at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:5001)
            at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
            at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:515)
            at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:785)
            at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:601)
            at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)
     Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: Didn't find class "org.azurespot.cutemain.CuteMainActivity" on path: DexPathList[[zip file "/data/app/org.azurespot-2.apk"],nativeLibraryDirectories=[/data/app-lib/org.azurespot-2, /system/lib]]
            at dalvik.system.BaseDexClassLoader.findClass(BaseDexClassLoader.java:56)
            at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:497)
            at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:457)
            at android.app.Instrumentation.newActivity(Instrumentation.java:1061)
            at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2101)
            at android.app.ActivityThread.handleLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2233)
            at android.app.ActivityThread.access$800(ActivityThread.java:135)
            at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:1196)
            at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:102)
            at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:136)
            at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:5001)
            at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
            at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:515)
            at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:785)
            at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:601)
            at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)

Answer 1

Ah... the package name with (androidTest) was indeed the culprit. All of the above answers should have fixed things, but the final problem was that when I refactored (I have no idea how it happened), all of my new package names got put into my androidTest directory in the src folder, and nothing was in my main of my src folder. So when my app went looking for the main activity, it could not be found. The fix to this was to put the whole java folder back into the main folder (as it was empty for some reason), then restart the app and everything worked again. It was not necessary to delete the androidTest folder, and it seems fine that it's empty.

Answer 2

You should change it to one of the followings:

android:name="org.azurespot.cutemain.CuteMainActivity"

or

android:name=".cutemain.CuteMainActivity"