# Error
Added in[API level 1](https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/manifest/uses-sdk-element#ApiLevels)
Summary:[Ctors](https://developer.android.com/reference/java/lang/Error#pubctors)\|[Protected Ctors](https://developer.android.com/reference/java/lang/Error#proctors)\|[Inherited Methods](https://developer.android.com/reference/java/lang/Error#inhmethods)
# Error
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public
class
Error
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extends `[Throwable](https://developer.android.com/reference/java/lang/Throwable)`
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| [java.lang.Object](https://developer.android.com/reference/java/lang/Object) |||
| ↳ | [java.lang.Throwable](https://developer.android.com/reference/java/lang/Throwable) ||
| | ↳ | java.lang.Error |
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| Known direct subclasses [AnnotationFormatError](https://developer.android.com/reference/java/lang/annotation/AnnotationFormatError),[AssertionError](https://developer.android.com/reference/java/lang/AssertionError),[AssertionFailedError](https://developer.android.com/reference/android/test/AssertionFailedError),[CoderMalfunctionError](https://developer.android.com/reference/java/nio/charset/CoderMalfunctionError),[FactoryConfigurationError](https://developer.android.com/reference/javax/xml/parsers/FactoryConfigurationError),[IOError](https://developer.android.com/reference/java/io/IOError),[LinkageError](https://developer.android.com/reference/java/lang/LinkageError),[ServiceConfigurationError](https://developer.android.com/reference/java/util/ServiceConfigurationError),[ThreadDeath](https://developer.android.com/reference/java/lang/ThreadDeath),[TransformerFactoryConfigurationError](https://developer.android.com/reference/javax/xml/transform/TransformerFactoryConfigurationError),[VirtualMachineError](https://developer.android.com/reference/java/lang/VirtualMachineError) |------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | [AnnotationFormatError](https://developer.android.com/reference/java/lang/annotation/AnnotationFormatError) | Thrown when the annotation parser attempts to read an annotation from a class file and determines that the annotation is malformed. | | [AssertionError](https://developer.android.com/reference/java/lang/AssertionError) | Thrown to indicate that an assertion has failed. | | [AssertionFailedError](https://developer.android.com/reference/android/test/AssertionFailedError) | *This class was deprecated in API level 16. use junit.framework.AssertionFailedError* | | [CoderMalfunctionError](https://developer.android.com/reference/java/nio/charset/CoderMalfunctionError) | Error thrown when the[decodeLoop](https://developer.android.com/reference/java/nio/charset/CharsetDecoder#decodeLoop(java.nio.ByteBuffer,%20java.nio.CharBuffer))method of a[CharsetDecoder](https://developer.android.com/reference/java/nio/charset/CharsetDecoder), or the[encodeLoop](https://developer.android.com/reference/java/nio/charset/CharsetEncoder#encodeLoop(java.nio.CharBuffer,%20java.nio.ByteBuffer))method of a[CharsetEncoder](https://developer.android.com/reference/java/nio/charset/CharsetEncoder), throws an unexpected exception. | | [FactoryConfigurationError](https://developer.android.com/reference/javax/xml/parsers/FactoryConfigurationError) | Thrown when a problem with configuration with the Parser Factories exists. | | [IOError](https://developer.android.com/reference/java/io/IOError) | Thrown when a serious I/O error has occurred. | | [LinkageError](https://developer.android.com/reference/java/lang/LinkageError) | Subclasses of`LinkageError`indicate that a class has some dependency on another class; however, the latter class has incompatibly changed after the compilation of the former class. | | [ServiceConfigurationError](https://developer.android.com/reference/java/util/ServiceConfigurationError) | Error thrown when something goes wrong while locating, loading, or instantiating a service provider. | | [ThreadDeath](https://developer.android.com/reference/java/lang/ThreadDeath) | An instance of`ThreadDeath`is thrown in the victim thread when the (deprecated)[Thread.stop()](https://developer.android.com/reference/java/lang/Thread#stop())method is invoked. | | [TransformerFactoryConfigurationError](https://developer.android.com/reference/javax/xml/transform/TransformerFactoryConfigurationError) | Thrown when a problem with configuration with the Transformer Factories exists. | | [VirtualMachineError](https://developer.android.com/reference/java/lang/VirtualMachineError) | Thrown to indicate that the Java Virtual Machine is broken or has run out of resources necessary for it to continue operating. | |
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| Known indirect subclasses [AbstractMethodError](https://developer.android.com/reference/java/lang/AbstractMethodError),[BootstrapMethodError](https://developer.android.com/reference/java/lang/BootstrapMethodError),[ClassCircularityError](https://developer.android.com/reference/java/lang/ClassCircularityError),[ClassFormatError](https://developer.android.com/reference/java/lang/ClassFormatError),[ComparisonFailure](https://developer.android.com/reference/android/test/ComparisonFailure),[ExceptionInInitializerError](https://developer.android.com/reference/java/lang/ExceptionInInitializerError),[GenericSignatureFormatError](https://developer.android.com/reference/java/lang/reflect/GenericSignatureFormatError),[IllegalAccessError](https://developer.android.com/reference/java/lang/IllegalAccessError),[IncompatibleClassChangeError](https://developer.android.com/reference/java/lang/IncompatibleClassChangeError),[InstantiationError](https://developer.android.com/reference/java/lang/InstantiationError),[InternalError](https://developer.android.com/reference/java/lang/InternalError),[NoClassDefFoundError](https://developer.android.com/reference/java/lang/NoClassDefFoundError),[NoSuchFieldError](https://developer.android.com/reference/java/lang/NoSuchFieldError),[NoSuchMethodError](https://developer.android.com/reference/java/lang/NoSuchMethodError),[OutOfMemoryError](https://developer.android.com/reference/java/lang/OutOfMemoryError), and 6 others. |----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | [AbstractMethodError](https://developer.android.com/reference/java/lang/AbstractMethodError) | Thrown when an application tries to call an abstract method. | | [BootstrapMethodError](https://developer.android.com/reference/java/lang/BootstrapMethodError) | Thrown to indicate that an`invokedynamic`instruction or a dynamic constant failed to resolve its bootstrap method and arguments, or for`invokedynamic`instruction the bootstrap method has failed to provide a[call site](https://developer.android.com/reference/java/lang/invoke/CallSite)with a[target](https://developer.android.com/reference/java/lang/invoke/CallSite#getTarget())of the correct[method type](https://developer.android.com/reference/java/lang/invoke/MethodHandle#type()), or for a dynamic constant the bootstrap method has failed to provide a constant value of the required type. | | [ClassCircularityError](https://developer.android.com/reference/java/lang/ClassCircularityError) | Thrown when the Java Virtual Machine detects a circularity in the superclass hierarchy of a class being loaded. | | [ClassFormatError](https://developer.android.com/reference/java/lang/ClassFormatError) | Thrown when the Java Virtual Machine attempts to read a class file and determines that the file is malformed or otherwise cannot be interpreted as a class file. | | [ComparisonFailure](https://developer.android.com/reference/android/test/ComparisonFailure) | *This class was deprecated in API level 16. use org.junit.ComparisonFailure* | | [ExceptionInInitializerError](https://developer.android.com/reference/java/lang/ExceptionInInitializerError) | Signals that an unexpected exception has occurred in a static initializer. | | [GenericSignatureFormatError](https://developer.android.com/reference/java/lang/reflect/GenericSignatureFormatError) | Thrown when a syntactically malformed signature attribute is encountered by a reflective method that needs to interpret the generic signature information for a type, method or constructor. | | [IllegalAccessError](https://developer.android.com/reference/java/lang/IllegalAccessError) | Thrown if an application attempts to access or modify a field, or to call a method that it does not have access to. | | [IncompatibleClassChangeError](https://developer.android.com/reference/java/lang/IncompatibleClassChangeError) | Thrown when an incompatible class change has occurred to some class definition. | | [InstantiationError](https://developer.android.com/reference/java/lang/InstantiationError) | Thrown when an application tries to use the Java`new`construct to instantiate an abstract class or an interface. | | [InternalError](https://developer.android.com/reference/java/lang/InternalError) | Thrown to indicate some unexpected internal error has occurred in the Java Virtual Machine. | | [NoClassDefFoundError](https://developer.android.com/reference/java/lang/NoClassDefFoundError) | Thrown if the Java Virtual Machine or a`ClassLoader`instance tries to load in the definition of a class (as part of a normal method call or as part of creating a new instance using the`new`expression) and no definition of the class could be found. | | [NoSuchFieldError](https://developer.android.com/reference/java/lang/NoSuchFieldError) | Thrown if an application tries to access or modify a specified field of an object, and that object no longer has that field. | | [NoSuchMethodError](https://developer.android.com/reference/java/lang/NoSuchMethodError) | Thrown if an application tries to call a specified method of a class (either static or instance), and that class no longer has a definition of that method. | | [OutOfMemoryError](https://developer.android.com/reference/java/lang/OutOfMemoryError) | Thrown when the Java Virtual Machine cannot allocate an object because it is out of memory, and no more memory could be made available by the garbage collector. | | [StackOverflowError](https://developer.android.com/reference/java/lang/StackOverflowError) | Thrown when a stack overflow occurs because an application recurses too deeply. | | [UnknownError](https://developer.android.com/reference/java/lang/UnknownError) | Thrown when an unknown but serious exception has occurred in the Java Virtual Machine. | | [UnsatisfiedLinkError](https://developer.android.com/reference/java/lang/UnsatisfiedLinkError) | Thrown if the Java Virtual Machine cannot find an appropriate native-language definition of a method declared`native`. | | [UnsupportedClassVersionError](https://developer.android.com/reference/java/lang/UnsupportedClassVersionError) | Thrown when the Java Virtual Machine attempts to read a class file and determines that the major and minor version numbers in the file are not supported. | | [VerifyError](https://developer.android.com/reference/java/lang/VerifyError) | Thrown when the "verifier" detects that a class file, though well formed, contains some sort of internal inconsistency or security problem. | | [ZipError](https://developer.android.com/reference/java/util/zip/ZipError) | Signals that an unrecoverable error has occurred. | |
*** ** * ** ***
An`Error`is a subclass of`Throwable`that indicates serious problems that a reasonable application should not try to catch. Most such errors are abnormal conditions. The`ThreadDeath`error, though a "normal" condition, is also a subclass of`Error`because most applications should not try to catch it.
A method is not required to declare in its`throws`clause any subclasses of`Error`that might be thrown during the execution of the method but not caught, since these errors are abnormal conditions that should never occur. That is,`Error`and its subclasses are regarded as unchecked exceptions for the purposes of compile-time checking of exceptions.
**See also:**
- [ThreadDeath](https://developer.android.com/reference/java/lang/ThreadDeath)
## Summary
| ### Public constructors ||
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| ` `[Error](https://developer.android.com/reference/java/lang/Error#Error())`() ` Constructs a new error with`null`as its detail message. |
| ` `[Error](https://developer.android.com/reference/java/lang/Error#Error(java.lang.String))`(`[String](https://developer.android.com/reference/java/lang/String)` message) ` Constructs a new error with the specified detail message. |
| ` `[Error](https://developer.android.com/reference/java/lang/Error#Error(java.lang.String,%20java.lang.Throwable))`(`[String](https://developer.android.com/reference/java/lang/String)` message, `[Throwable](https://developer.android.com/reference/java/lang/Throwable)` cause) ` Constructs a new error with the specified detail message and cause. |
| ` `[Error](https://developer.android.com/reference/java/lang/Error#Error(java.lang.Throwable))`(`[Throwable](https://developer.android.com/reference/java/lang/Throwable)` cause) ` Constructs a new error with the specified cause and a detail message of`(cause==null ? null : cause.toString())`(which typically contains the class and detail message of`cause`). |
| ### Protected constructors ||
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| ` `[Error](https://developer.android.com/reference/java/lang/Error#Error(java.lang.String,%20java.lang.Throwable,%20boolean,%20boolean))`(`[String](https://developer.android.com/reference/java/lang/String)` message, `[Throwable](https://developer.android.com/reference/java/lang/Throwable)` cause, boolean enableSuppression, boolean writableStackTrace) ` Constructs a new error with the specified detail message, cause, suppression enabled or disabled, and writable stack trace enabled or disabled. |
| ### Inherited methods |
|-----------------------|---|
| From class` `[java.lang.Throwable](https://developer.android.com/reference/java/lang/Throwable)` ` |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | ` final void` | ` `[addSuppressed](https://developer.android.com/reference/java/lang/Throwable#addSuppressed(java.lang.Throwable))`(`[Throwable](https://developer.android.com/reference/java/lang/Throwable)` exception) ` Appends the specified exception to the exceptions that were suppressed in order to deliver this exception. | | ` `[Throwable](https://developer.android.com/reference/java/lang/Throwable) | ` `[fillInStackTrace](https://developer.android.com/reference/java/lang/Throwable#fillInStackTrace())`() ` Fills in the execution stack trace. | | ` `[Throwable](https://developer.android.com/reference/java/lang/Throwable) | ` `[getCause](https://developer.android.com/reference/java/lang/Throwable#getCause())`() ` Returns the cause of this throwable or`null`if the cause is nonexistent or unknown. | | ` `[String](https://developer.android.com/reference/java/lang/String) | ` `[getLocalizedMessage](https://developer.android.com/reference/java/lang/Throwable#getLocalizedMessage())`() ` Creates a localized description of this throwable. | | ` `[String](https://developer.android.com/reference/java/lang/String) | ` `[getMessage](https://developer.android.com/reference/java/lang/Throwable#getMessage())`() ` Returns the detail message string of this throwable. | | ` `[StackTraceElement[]](https://developer.android.com/reference/java/lang/StackTraceElement) | ` `[getStackTrace](https://developer.android.com/reference/java/lang/Throwable#getStackTrace())`() ` Provides programmatic access to the stack trace information printed by[printStackTrace()](https://developer.android.com/reference/java/lang/Throwable#printStackTrace()). | | ` final `[Throwable[]](https://developer.android.com/reference/java/lang/Throwable) | ` `[getSuppressed](https://developer.android.com/reference/java/lang/Throwable#getSuppressed())`() ` Returns an array containing all of the exceptions that were suppressed, typically by the`try`-with-resources statement, in order to deliver this exception. | | ` `[Throwable](https://developer.android.com/reference/java/lang/Throwable) | ` `[initCause](https://developer.android.com/reference/java/lang/Throwable#initCause(java.lang.Throwable))`(`[Throwable](https://developer.android.com/reference/java/lang/Throwable)` cause) ` Initializes the*cause*of this throwable to the specified value. | | ` void` | ` `[printStackTrace](https://developer.android.com/reference/java/lang/Throwable#printStackTrace())`() ` Prints this throwable and its backtrace to the standard error stream. | | ` void` | ` `[printStackTrace](https://developer.android.com/reference/java/lang/Throwable#printStackTrace(java.io.PrintWriter))`(`[PrintWriter](https://developer.android.com/reference/java/io/PrintWriter)` s) ` Prints this throwable and its backtrace to the specified print writer. | | ` void` | ` `[printStackTrace](https://developer.android.com/reference/java/lang/Throwable#printStackTrace(java.io.PrintStream))`(`[PrintStream](https://developer.android.com/reference/java/io/PrintStream)` s) ` Prints this throwable and its backtrace to the specified print stream. | | ` void` | ` `[setStackTrace](https://developer.android.com/reference/java/lang/Throwable#setStackTrace(java.lang.StackTraceElement[]))`(`[StackTraceElement[]](https://developer.android.com/reference/java/lang/StackTraceElement)` stackTrace) ` Sets the stack trace elements that will be returned by[getStackTrace()](https://developer.android.com/reference/java/lang/Throwable#getStackTrace())and printed by[printStackTrace()](https://developer.android.com/reference/java/lang/Throwable#printStackTrace())and related methods. | | ` `[String](https://developer.android.com/reference/java/lang/String) | ` `[toString](https://developer.android.com/reference/java/lang/Throwable#toString())`() ` Returns a short description of this throwable. | ||
| From class` `[java.lang.Object](https://developer.android.com/reference/java/lang/Object)` ` |--------------------------------------------------------------------------------|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | ` `[Object](https://developer.android.com/reference/java/lang/Object) | ` `[clone](https://developer.android.com/reference/java/lang/Object#clone())`() ` Creates and returns a copy of this object. | | ` boolean` | ` `[equals](https://developer.android.com/reference/java/lang/Object#equals(java.lang.Object))`(`[Object](https://developer.android.com/reference/java/lang/Object)` obj) ` Indicates whether some other object is "equal to" this one. | | ` void` | ` `[finalize](https://developer.android.com/reference/java/lang/Object#finalize())`() ` Called by the garbage collector on an object when garbage collection determines that there are no more references to the object. | | ` final `[Class](https://developer.android.com/reference/java/lang/Class)`` | ` `[getClass](https://developer.android.com/reference/java/lang/Object#getClass())`() ` Returns the runtime class of this`Object`. | | ` int` | ` `[hashCode](https://developer.android.com/reference/java/lang/Object#hashCode())`() ` Returns a hash code value for the object. | | ` final void` | ` `[notify](https://developer.android.com/reference/java/lang/Object#notify())`() ` Wakes up a single thread that is waiting on this object's monitor. | | ` final void` | ` `[notifyAll](https://developer.android.com/reference/java/lang/Object#notifyAll())`() ` Wakes up all threads that are waiting on this object's monitor. | | ` `[String](https://developer.android.com/reference/java/lang/String) | ` `[toString](https://developer.android.com/reference/java/lang/Object#toString())`() ` Returns a string representation of the object. | | ` final void` | ` `[wait](https://developer.android.com/reference/java/lang/Object#wait(long,%20int))`(long timeoutMillis, int nanos) ` Causes the current thread to wait until it is awakened, typically by being*notified* or*interrupted*, or until a certain amount of real time has elapsed. | | ` final void` | ` `[wait](https://developer.android.com/reference/java/lang/Object#wait(long))`(long timeoutMillis) ` Causes the current thread to wait until it is awakened, typically by being*notified* or*interrupted*, or until a certain amount of real time has elapsed. | | ` final void` | ` `[wait](https://developer.android.com/reference/java/lang/Object#wait())`() ` Causes the current thread to wait until it is awakened, typically by being*notified* or*interrupted*. | ||
## Public constructors
### Error
Added in[API level 1](https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/manifest/uses-sdk-element#ApiLevels)
```
public Error ()
```
Constructs a new error with`null`as its detail message. The cause is not initialized, and may subsequently be initialized by a call to[Throwable.initCause(Throwable)](https://developer.android.com/reference/java/lang/Throwable#initCause(java.lang.Throwable)).
### Error
Added in[API level 1](https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/manifest/uses-sdk-element#ApiLevels)
```
public Error (String message)
```
Constructs a new error with the specified detail message. The cause is not initialized, and may subsequently be initialized by a call to[Throwable.initCause(Throwable)](https://developer.android.com/reference/java/lang/Throwable#initCause(java.lang.Throwable)).
| Parameters ||
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| `message` | `String`: the detail message. The detail message is saved for later retrieval by the[Throwable.getMessage()](https://developer.android.com/reference/java/lang/Throwable#getMessage())method.
|
### Error
Added in[API level 1](https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/manifest/uses-sdk-element#ApiLevels)
```
public Error (String message,
Throwable cause)
```
Constructs a new error with the specified detail message and cause.
Note that the detail message associated with`cause`is*not*automatically incorporated in this error's detail message.
| Parameters ||
|-----------|---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| `message` | `String`: the detail message (which is saved for later retrieval by the[Throwable.getMessage()](https://developer.android.com/reference/java/lang/Throwable#getMessage())method).
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| `cause` | `Throwable`: the cause (which is saved for later retrieval by the[Throwable.getCause()](https://developer.android.com/reference/java/lang/Throwable#getCause())method). (A`null`value is permitted, and indicates that the cause is nonexistent or unknown.)
|
### Error
Added in[API level 1](https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/manifest/uses-sdk-element#ApiLevels)
```
public Error (Throwable cause)
```
Constructs a new error with the specified cause and a detail message of`(cause==null ? null : cause.toString())`(which typically contains the class and detail message of`cause`). This constructor is useful for errors that are little more than wrappers for other throwables.
| Parameters ||
|---------|---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| `cause` | `Throwable`: the cause (which is saved for later retrieval by the[Throwable.getCause()](https://developer.android.com/reference/java/lang/Throwable#getCause())method). (A`null`value is permitted, and indicates that the cause is nonexistent or unknown.)
|
## Protected constructors
### Error
Added in[API level 24](https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/manifest/uses-sdk-element#ApiLevels)
```
protected Error (String message,
Throwable cause,
boolean enableSuppression,
boolean writableStackTrace)
```
Constructs a new error with the specified detail message, cause, suppression enabled or disabled, and writable stack trace enabled or disabled.
| Parameters ||
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| `message` | `String`: the detail message.
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| `cause` | `Throwable`: the cause. (A`null`value is permitted, and indicates that the cause is nonexistent or unknown.)
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| `enableSuppression` | `boolean`: whether or not suppression is enabled or disabled
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| `writableStackTrace` | `boolean`: whether or not the stack trace should be writable
|