Error starting tab activity in Android?
I followed the instructions in this Android tutorial copying / pasting the code from the site into my application.
http://developer.android.com/resources/tutorials/views/hello-tabwidget.html
However, when I try to run in Android emulator, I get the error:
"The Hello Tab application widget stopped unexpectedly. Please try again."
I tried debugging by entering a breakpoint on the first line of the onCreate method, but the error occurs before the breakpoint even hits. Any idea of what is going wrong, or in some other way I can debug this problem? I am using Eclipse.
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Since your symptoms are very general, you should try to view all the logs generated by your application. You can do this by typing:
adb logcat
Here you can determine the exact point at which your application crashes. Briefly, you will see an Exception being thrown, which can give you an idea of what is going on. You can edit your post and add journal information as well as the code you wrote so that we can help you.
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you probably came across class names and your AndroidManifest.xml no longer points to the main action.
Make sure that:
<intent-filter>
<action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />
<category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
</intent-filter>
is inside the tags <activity>
in the AndroidManifest.xml file.
You can also configure this with the manifest GUI in eclipse if you like.
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