android - How to resolve NoClassDefFoundError: Failed resolution of: Landroid/view/View$OnUnhandledKeyEventListener;

Question

I have upgraded my Android Studio to

Android Studio 3.2
Build #AI-181.5540.7.32.5014246, built on September 17, 2018
JRE: 1.8.0_152-release-1136-b06 x86_64
JVM: OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM by JetBrains s.r.o
Mac OS X 10.11.6

I create a new Project using Empty Activity template

Sync Gradle
Clean
Build
Run

my application logcat shows this exception on startup

2018-09-27 13:51:41.116 22090-22090/? I/zygote64: Rejecting re-init on previously-failed class java.lang.Class<android.support.v4.view.ViewCompat$OnUnhandledKeyEventListenerWrapper>: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: Failed resolution of: Landroid/view/View$OnUnhandledKeyEventListener;
2018-09-27 13:51:41.116 22090-22090/? I/zygote64:     at void android.support.v4.view.ViewCompat.setBackground(android.view.View, android.graphics.drawable.Drawable) (ViewCompat.java:2341)
2018-09-27 13:51:41.116 22090-22090/? I/zygote64:     at void android.support.v7.widget.ActionBarContainer.<init>(android.content.Context, android.util.AttributeSet) (ActionBarContainer.java:62)
2018-09-27 13:51:41.116 22090-22090/? I/zygote64:     at java.lang.Object java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance0(java.lang.Object[]) (Constructor.java:-2)
2018-09-27 13:51:41.116 22090-22090/? I/zygote64:     at java.lang.Object java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(java.lang.Object[]) (Constructor.java:334)
2018-09-27 13:51:41.116 22090-22090/? I/zygote64:     at android.view.View android.view.LayoutInflater.createView(java.lang.String, java.lang.String, android.util.AttributeSet) (LayoutInflater.java:647)
2018-09-27 13:51:41.116 22090-22090/? I/zygote64:     at android.view.View android.view.LayoutInflater.createViewFromTag(android.view.View, java.lang.String, android.content.Context, android.util.AttributeSet, boolean) (LayoutInflater.java:790)
2018-09-27 13:51:41.116 22090-22090/? I/zygote64:     at android.view.View android.view.LayoutInflater.createViewFromTag(android.view.View, java.lang.String, android.content.Context, android.util.AttributeSet) (LayoutInflater.java:730)
2018-09-27 13:51:41.116 22090-22090/? I/zygote64:     at void android.view.LayoutInflater.rInflate(org.xmlpull.v1.XmlPullParser, android.view.View, android.content.Context, android.util.AttributeSet, boolean) (LayoutInflater.java:863)
2018-09-27 13:51:41.116 22090-22090/? I/zygote64:     at void android.view.LayoutInflater.rInflateChildren(org.xmlpull.v1.XmlPullParser, android.view.View, android.util.AttributeSet, boolean) (LayoutInflater.java:824)
2018-09-27 13:51:41.116 22090-22090/? I/zygote64:     at android.view.View android.view.LayoutInflater.inflate(org.xmlpull.v1.XmlPullParser, android.view.ViewGroup, boolean) (LayoutInflater.java:515)
2018-09-27 13:51:41.116 22090-22090/? I/zygote64:     at android.view.View android.view.LayoutInflater.inflate(int, android.view.ViewGroup, boolean) (LayoutInflater.java:423)
2018-09-27 13:51:41.116 22090-22090/? I/zygote64:     at android.view.View android.view.LayoutInflater.inflate(int, android.view.ViewGroup) (LayoutInflater.java:374)
2018-09-27 13:51:41.116 22090-22090/? I/zygote64:     at android.view.ViewGroup android.support.v7.app.AppCompatDelegateImpl.createSubDecor() (AppCompatDelegateImpl.java:607)
2018-09-27 13:51:41.116 22090-22090/? I/zygote64:     at void android.support.v7.app.AppCompatDelegateImpl.ensureSubDecor() (AppCompatDelegateImpl.java:518)
2018-09-27 13:51:41.116 22090-22090/? I/zygote64:     at void android.support.v7.app.AppCompatDelegateImpl.setContentView(int) (AppCompatDelegateImpl.java:466)
2018-09-27 13:51:41.116 22090-22090/? I/zygote64:     at void android.support.v7.app.AppCompatActivity.setContentView(int) (AppCompatActivity.java:140)
2018-09-27 13:51:41.116 22090-22090/? I/zygote64:     at void com.manacle.secondmanacle.MainActivity.onCreate(android.os.Bundle) (MainActivity.java:11)
2018-09-27 13:51:41.116 22090-22090/? I/zygote64:     at void android.app.Activity.performCreate(android.os.Bundle, android.os.PersistableBundle) (Activity.java:7009)
2018-09-27 13:51:41.116 22090-22090/? I/zygote64:     at void android.app.Activity.performCreate(android.os.Bundle) (Activity.java:7000)
2018-09-27 13:51:41.116 22090-22090/? I/zygote64:     at void android.app.Instrumentation.callActivityOnCreate(android.app.Activity, android.os.Bundle) (Instrumentation.java:1214)
2018-09-27 13:51:41.116 22090-22090/? I/zygote64:     at android.app.Activity android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(android.app.ActivityThread$ActivityClientRecord, android.content.Intent) (ActivityThread.java:2731)
2018-09-27 13:51:41.116 22090-22090/? I/zygote64:     at void android.app.ActivityThread.handleLaunchActivity(android.app.ActivityThread$ActivityClientRecord, android.content.Intent, java.lang.String) (ActivityThread.java:2856)
2018-09-27 13:51:41.116 22090-22090/? I/zygote64:     at void android.app.ActivityThread.-wrap11(android.app.ActivityThread, android.app.ActivityThread$ActivityClientRecord, android.content.Intent, java.lang.String) (ActivityThread.java:-1)
2018-09-27 13:51:41.116 22090-22090/? I/zygote64:     at void android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(android.os.Message) (ActivityThread.java:1589)
2018-09-27 13:51:41.116 22090-22090/? I/zygote64:     at void android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(android.os.Message) (Handler.java:106)
2018-09-27 13:51:41.116 22090-22090/? I/zygote64:     at void android.os.Looper.loop() (Looper.java:164)
2018-09-27 13:51:41.116 22090-22090/? I/zygote64:     at void android.app.ActivityThread.main(java.lang.String[]) (ActivityThread.java:6494)
2018-09-27 13:51:41.116 22090-22090/? I/zygote64:     at java.lang.Object java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(java.lang.Object, java.lang.Object[]) (Method.java:-2)
2018-09-27 13:51:41.116 22090-22090/? I/zygote64:     at void com.android.internal.os.RuntimeInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run() (RuntimeInit.java:438)
2018-09-27 13:51:41.116 22090-22090/? I/zygote64:     at void com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(java.lang.String[]) (ZygoteInit.java:807)
2018-09-27 13:51:41.116 22090-22090/? I/zygote64: Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: Didn't find class "android.view.View$OnUnhandledKeyEventListener" on path: DexPathList[[zip file "/data/app/com.manacle.secondmanacle-6Ra5peoMwc4HH30iTlEXCg==/base.apk"],nativeLibraryDirectories=[/data/app/com.manacle.secondmanacle-6Ra5peoMwc4HH30iTlEXCg==/lib/arm64, /system/lib64, /vendor/lib64]]

I have made no changes to the template app generated by Android Studio.

Why doesnt the generate template app start cleanly?

I tried migrating to androidX, however the issue remains exactly the same.

Why cant Android Studio generate a "clean" template application?

My gradle files resemble this:-

buildscript {

    repositories {
        google()
        jcenter()
    }
    dependencies {
        classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:3.2.0'


        // NOTE: Do not place your application dependencies here; they belong
        // in the individual module build.gradle files
    }
}

allprojects {
    repositories {
        google()
        jcenter()
    }
}

task clean(type: Delete) {
    delete rootProject.buildDir
}

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apply plugin: 'com.android.application'

android {
    compileSdkVersion 28
    defaultConfig {
        applicationId "com.manacle.secondmanacle"
        minSdkVersion 21
        targetSdkVersion 28
        versionCode 1
        versionName "1.0"
        testInstrumentationRunner "androidx.test.runner.AndroidJUnitRunner"
    }
    buildTypes {
        release {
            minifyEnabled false
            proguardFiles getDefaultProguardFile('proguard-android.txt'), 'proguard-rules.pro'
        }
    }
}

dependencies {
    implementation fileTree(dir: 'libs', include: ['*.jar'])
    implementation 'androidx.appcompat:appcompat:1.0.0'
    implementation 'androidx.constraintlayout:constraintlayout:2.0.0-alpha2'
    testImplementation 'junit:junit:4.12'
    androidTestImplementation 'androidx.test:runner:1.1.0-alpha4'
    androidTestImplementation 'androidx.test.espresso:espresso-core:3.1.0-alpha4'
}

Answer 1

Sometimes after an upgrade, you need to invalidate and clear cache.

There are some known issues in 3.2 so also ensure you are not on Kotlin tools org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-gradle-plugin:1.2.70

as that causes freeze issues as well. If that doesn't work, remove your google plugin lines and support libraries, sync and add them again and sync. Sometimes the cache directories just get out of whack.