title: Unable to instantiate activity ComponentInfo
body: <p>I am developing an application for Froyo as minimum version and Gingerbread as the target version. So, the manifest shows:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;uses-sdk android:minSdkVersion="8" android:targetSdkVersion="10"/&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I have an emulator and a Nexus One with Gingerbread, and the application deploys and installs correctly.
  But when it starts, it crashes, and the error thrown in the log is:</p>
  
  <pre><code>09-18 06:35:11.240: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(382): FATAL EXCEPTION: main
  09-18 06:35:11.240: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(382): java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to instantiate activity ComponentInfo{com.my.package/com.my.package.Dashboard}: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: com.my.package.Dashboard in loader dalvik.system.PathClassLoader[/data/app/com.my.package-2.apk]
  09-18 06:35:11.240: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(382):     at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:1569)
  09-18 06:35:11.240: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(382):     at android.app.ActivityThread.handleLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:1663)
  09-18 06:35:11.240: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(382):     at android.app.ActivityThread.access$1500(ActivityThread.java:117)
  09-18 06:35:11.240: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(382):     at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:931)
  09-18 06:35:11.240: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(382):     at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99)
  09-18 06:35:11.240: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(382):     at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:130)
  09-18 06:35:11.240: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(382):     at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:3683)
  09-18 06:35:11.240: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(382):     at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
  09-18 06:35:11.240: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(382):     at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:507)
  09-18 06:35:11.240: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(382):     at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:839)
  09-18 06:35:11.240: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(382):     at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:597)
  09-18 06:35:11.240: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(382):     at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)
  09-18 06:35:11.240: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(382): Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: com.my.package.Dashboard in loader dalvik.system.PathClassLoader[/data/app/com.my.package-2.apk]
  09-18 06:35:11.240: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(382):     at dalvik.system.PathClassLoader.findClass(PathClassLoader.java:240)
  09-18 06:35:11.240: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(382):     at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:551)
  09-18 06:35:11.240: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(382):     at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:511)
  09-18 06:35:11.240: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(382):     at android.app.Instrumentation.newActivity(Instrumentation.java:1021)
  09-18 06:35:11.240: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(382):     at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:1561)
  09-18 06:35:11.240: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(382):     ... 11 more
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>And yes, the activity "Dashboard" is declared in the Manifest:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
        package="com.my.package"
        android:versionCode="1"
        android:versionName="1.0"
        android:installLocation="auto"&gt;
  
        &lt;activity android:name=".Dashboard"
                android:label="@string/app_name"
                android:screenOrientation="portrait"&gt;
  
              &lt;intent-filter&gt;
                    &lt;action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN"/&gt;
                    &lt;category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER"/&gt;
              &lt;/intent-filter&gt;
        &lt;/activity&gt;
  
        ...
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>So what can this problem be related to?? This is driving me nuts.</p>