Using an Android library project Activity within another project

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Marcos Vasconcelos picture Marcos Vasconcelos · May 27, 2011 · Viewed 47.3k times · Source

I have an Android library project that I would like to use from within another Android project.

The library has a Activity declared in its AndroidManifest. When I try the following within the second project:

        Intent intent = new Intent(this, ReaderActivity.class);
        startActivity(intent);

I get the following exception:

 java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to start activity ComponentInfo{br.com.digitalpages.reader.demo/br.com.digitalpages.reader.demo.ReaderDemoActivity}: android.content.ActivityNotFoundException: Unable to find explicit activity class {br.com.digitalpages.reader.demo/br.com.digitalpages.reader.ReaderActivity}; have you declared this activity in your AndroidManifest.xml?
     at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2663)
...
 Caused by: android.content.ActivityNotFoundException: Unable to find explicit activity class {br.com.digitalpages.reader.demo/br.com.digitalpages.reader.ReaderActivity}; have you declared this activity in your AndroidManifest.xml?
     at android.app.Instrumentation.checkStartActivityResult(Instrumentation.java:1404)
     at android.app.Instrumentation.execStartActivity(Instrumentation.java:1378)
...

How can I open the Activity from the another project?

EDIT: By users answers I added the following line into my second project

<uses-library android:name="br.com.digitalpages.reader" android:required="true" />

But it's still doesn't works

Answer

mah picture mah · May 27, 2011

I believe you must include the <activity> in your own AndroidManifest.xml -- I don't think it gets picked up from a library. I don't have my reference for that handy.

Update: It's official solution. From the doc:

Declaring library components in the manifest file

In the manifest file of the application project, you must add declarations of all components that the application will use that are imported from a library project. For example, you must declare any <activity>, <service>, <receiver>, <provider>, and so on, as well as <permission>, <uses-library>, and similar elements.

Declarations should reference the library components by their fully-qualified package names, where appropriate.

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