Unexpected top-level exception after changing package name

Question

I am working on an Android Studio project and ran into a problem when I tried to create a package that started with a capital letter (I forgot what it was at this point, but that's not the issue at hand). So I changed the package name from Adapters to adapters and now I can no longer compile.

I receive the following error message:

com.android.dx.cf.iface.ParseException: class name (com/example/android/myAppName/adapters/AccountAdapter$ViewHolder) does not match path (com/example/android/myAppName/Adapters/AccountAdapter$ViewHolder.class)

How can I change it so that it no longer tries to match the path with the capital A?

Semitrailer

Tried "Clean Project"? – Morphine

@Morphine oh my god I feel like the dumbest programmer in the world right now. I'm up and running again, that fixed the issue. – Semitrailer

@Morphine any idea what causes that though? Is it a bug in Android Studio, since the refactoring of the package name didn't work? – Semitrailer

It's not a bug. The Build Tool doesn't recognize the package name change and reuses the cache. "Clean Project" forces to rebuild all the classes. – Morphine

That makes a lot of sense. Thanks so much for the insight. – Semitrailer

No problem. "Clean Project" is a solution to most Build errors! :) – Morphine

Answer 1

This issue has been resolved. Thanks to aid of a commenter, I no longer received this exception after running "Clean Project" in Android Studio.

See the comments to the question for more explanation on why this happened.

Semitrailer

same to me, renamed package and got this error, clean project halped – Impartible