I have searched extensively to find a solution for this issue and tried what I see has been suggested in the past.
Things I tried: Deleted *.iml files locally Deleted .idea files locally Removed the project Closed Android Studio and re-imported
Invalidated cached Cleaned and re-builded. I'm assuming what caused the problem is moving MainActivity to a newly created package. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
2019-02-23 17:04:15.948 5842-5842/com.ssowens.android.myweatherapp E/AndroidRuntime: FATAL EXCEPTION: main
Process: com.ssowens.android.myweatherapp, PID: 5842
java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to instantiate activity ComponentInfo{com.ssowens.android.myweatherapp/com.ssowens.android.myweatherapp.ui.MainActivity}: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: Didn't find class "com.ssowens.android.myweatherapp.ui.MainActivity" on path: DexPathList[[zip file "/data/app/com.ssowens.android.myweatherapp-UUO7m3VwjvpzPBPoUp-2AA==/base.apk"],nativeLibraryDirectories=[/data/app/com.ssowens.android.myweatherapp-UUO7m3VwjvpzPBPoUp-2AA==/lib/x86, /system/lib, /vendor/lib]]
at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2718)
at android.app.ActivityThread.handleLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2892)
at android.app.ActivityThread.-wrap11(Unknown Source:0)
at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:1593)
at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:105)
at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:164)
at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:6541)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
at com.android.internal.os.Zygote$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(Zygote.java:240)
at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:767)
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: Didn't find class "com.ssowens.android.myweatherapp.ui.MainActivity" on path: DexPathList[[zip file "/data/app/com.ssowens.android.myweatherapp-UUO7m3VwjvpzPBPoUp-2AA==/base.apk"],nativeLibraryDirectories=[/data/app/com.ssowens.android.myweatherapp-UUO7m3VwjvpzPBPoUp-2AA==/lib/x86, /system/lib, /vendor/lib]]
at dalvik.system.BaseDexClassLoader.findClass(BaseDexClassLoader.java:93)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:379)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:312)
at android.app.Instrumentation.newActivity(Instrumentation.java:1173)
at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2708)
at android.app.ActivityThread.handleLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2892)
at android.app.ActivityThread.-wrap11(Unknown Source:0)
at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:1593)
at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:105)
at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:164)
at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:6541)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
at com.android.internal.os.Zygote$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(Zygote.java:240)
at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:767)