When I try to implement RecyclerView following the book’s directions, I face this error.
2018-12-26 23:33:51.579 1881-1881/? E/LoadedApk: Unable to instantiate appComponentFactory
java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: Didn’t find class “android.support.v4.app.CoreComponentFactory” on path: DexPathList[,nativeLibraryDirectories=[/data/app/com.example.harry.geoquiz-BypZIUylSSfkYCKgbc2P6w==/lib/x86, /system/lib]]
at dalvik.system.BaseDexClassLoader.findClass(BaseDexClassLoader.java:134)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:379)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:312)
at android.app.LoadedApk.createAppFactory(LoadedApk.java:226)
at android.app.LoadedApk.updateApplicationInfo(LoadedApk.java:338)
at android.app.ActivityThread.handleDispatchPackageBroadcast(ActivityThread.java:5388)
at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:1733)
at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:106)
at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:193)
at com.android.server.SystemServer.run(SystemServer.java:454)
at com.android.server.SystemServer.main(SystemServer.java:294)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
at com.android.internal.os.RuntimeInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(RuntimeInit.java:493)
at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:838)
I could not get any solution for this when I scoured the Internet. I don’t know, based on my reading so far, what appComponentFactory is. Have any one of the readers faced such problem? Kindly help me out.