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Android Intents and Broadcast Receivers Implicit Intents and Intent Filters Sharing Songs with a Custom Intent

Aida Eduard
Aida Eduard
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Posted by Aida Eduard
Aida Eduard
8,499 Points

Class not found when unmarshalling

Hello, here is my problem: when choosing a song and pressing Share Song in menu the app crashes and this errors appears:

E/Parcel: Class not found when unmarshalling: ~.musicmachine.models.Song java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: ~.musicmachine.models.Song at java.lang.Class.classForName(Native Method) at java.lang.Class.forName(Class.java:400) at android.os.Parcel.readParcelableCreator(Parcel.java:2507) at android.os.Parcel.readParcelable(Parcel.java:2461) at android.os.Parcel.readValue(Parcel.java:2364) at android.os.Parcel.readArrayMapInternal(Parcel.java:2717) at android.os.BaseBundle.unparcel(BaseBundle.java:269) at android.os.BaseBundle.getBoolean(BaseBundle.java:731) at android.content.Intent.getBooleanExtra(Intent.java:6112) at com.android.internal.app.ChooserActivity.onCreate(ChooserActivity.java:317) at android.app.Activity.performCreate(Activity.java:6757) at android.app.Instrumentation.callActivityOnCreate(Instrumentation.java:1119) at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2704) at android.app.ActivityThread.handleLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2812) at android.app.ActivityThread.-wrap12(ActivityThread.java) at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:1528) at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:102) at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:154) at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:6317) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method) at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:872) at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:762) Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: ~.musicmachine.models.Song at java.lang.Class.classForName(Native Method) at java.lang.BootClassLoader.findClass(ClassLoader.java:1346) at java.lang.BootClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:1406) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:312) at java.lang.Class.classForName(Native Method)  at java.lang.Class.forName(Class.java:400)  at android.os.Parcel.readParcelableCreator(Parcel.java:2507)  at android.os.Parcel.readParcelable(Parcel.java:2461)  at android.os.Parcel.readValue(Parcel.java:2364)  at android.os.Parcel.readArrayMapInternal(Parcel.java:2717)  at android.os.BaseBundle.unparcel(BaseBundle.java:269)  at android.os.BaseBundle.getBoolean(BaseBundle.java:731)  at android.content.Intent.getBooleanExtra(Intent.java:6112)  at com.android.internal.app.ChooserActivity.onCreate(ChooserActivity.java:317)  at android.app.Activity.performCreate(Activity.java:6757)  at android.app.Instrumentation.callActivityOnCreate(Instrumentation.java:1119)  at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2704)  at android.app.ActivityThread.handleLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2812)  at android.app.ActivityThread.-wrap12(ActivityThread.java)  at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:1528)  at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:102)  at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:154)  at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:6317)  at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)  at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:872)  at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:762)  Caused by: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: Class not found using the boot class loader; no stack trace available

E/AndroidRuntime: FATAL EXCEPTION: main Process: android:ui, PID: 7557 java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to start activity ComponentInfo{android/com.android.internal.app.ChooserActivity}: android.os.BadParcelableException: ClassNotFoundException when unmarshalling: ~.musicmachine.models.Song at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2751) at android.app.ActivityThread.handleLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2812) at android.app.ActivityThread.-wrap12(ActivityThread.java) at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:1528) at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:102) at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:154) at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:6317) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method) at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:872) at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:762) Caused by: android.os.BadParcelableException: ClassNotFoundException when unmarshalling: ~.musicmachine.models.Song at android.os.Parcel.readParcelableCreator(Parcel.java:2535) at android.os.Parcel.readParcelable(Parcel.java:2461) at android.os.Parcel.readValue(Parcel.java:2364) at android.os.Parcel.readArrayMapInternal(Parcel.java:2717) at android.os.BaseBundle.unparcel(BaseBundle.java:269) at android.os.BaseBundle.getBoolean(BaseBundle.java:731) at android.content.Intent.getBooleanExtra(Intent.java:6112) at com.android.internal.app.ChooserActivity.onCreate(ChooserActivity.java:317) at android.app.Activity.performCreate(Activity.java:6757) at android.app.Instrumentation.callActivityOnCreate(Instrumentation.java:1119) at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2704) at android.app.ActivityThread.handleLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2812)  at android.app.ActivityThread.-wrap12(ActivityThread.java)  at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:1528)  at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:102)  at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:154)  at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:6317)  at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)  at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:872)  at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:762) 

Code is identical to the one in the the video