title: Android: java.lang.IllegalAccessException when attempting to use a custom "Application" class
body: <p>I'm trying to create define a custom Application class as follows:</p>
  
  <ol>
  <li>create an empty subclass of
  Application called MyApp</li>
  <li>in the manifest, specify
  android::name for my application: 
  <code>&lt;application android:name=".MyApp"
  ...</code></li>
  </ol>
  
  <p>However, when I attempt to run my app, I get:
  <code>java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to instantiate application com.test.MyApp java.lang.IllegalAccessException: access to class not allowed</code></p>