# InstantiationError

Added in [API level 1](https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/manifest/uses-sdk-element.html#ApiLevels)

# InstantiationError

```
open class InstantiationError : IncompatibleClassChangeError
```

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| [kotlin.Any](https://kotlinlang.org/api/latest/jvm/stdlib/kotlin/-any/index.html)                                           ||||||
| ↳ | [kotlin.Throwable](https://kotlinlang.org/api/latest/jvm/stdlib/kotlin/-throwable/index.html)                            |||||
|   | ↳ | [java.lang.Error](https://developer.android.com/reference/kotlin/java/lang/Error)                                     ||||
|   |   | ↳ | [java.lang.LinkageError](https://developer.android.com/reference/kotlin/java/lang/LinkageError)                    |||
|   |   |   | ↳ | [java.lang.IncompatibleClassChangeError](https://developer.android.com/reference/kotlin/java/lang/IncompatibleClassChangeError) ||
|   |   |   |   | ↳ | [java.lang.InstantiationError](https://developer.android.com/reference/kotlin/java/lang/InstantiationError#) |

Thrown when an application tries to use the Java `new` construct to instantiate an abstract class or an interface.

Normally, this error is caught by the compiler; this error can only occur at run time if the definition of a class has incompatibly changed.

## Summary

|                                                                                                                                           Public constructors                                                                                                                                            ||
|-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|---|
| [InstantiationError](https://developer.android.com/reference/kotlin/java/lang/InstantiationError#InstantiationError())`()` Constructs an `InstantiationError` with no detail message.                                                                                                                 |
| [InstantiationError](https://developer.android.com/reference/kotlin/java/lang/InstantiationError#InstantiationError(kotlin.String))`(`s:` `[String](https://kotlinlang.org/api/latest/jvm/stdlib/kotlin/-string/index.html)!`)` Constructs an `InstantiationError` with the specified detail message. |

## Public constructors

### InstantiationError

Added in [API level 1](https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/manifest/uses-sdk-element.html#ApiLevels)  

```
InstantiationError()
```

Constructs an `InstantiationError` with no detail message.  

### InstantiationError

Added in [API level 1](https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/manifest/uses-sdk-element.html#ApiLevels)  

```
InstantiationError(s: String!)
```

Constructs an `InstantiationError` with the specified detail message.

|                                                 Parameters                                                  ||
|-----|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| `s` | [String](https://kotlinlang.org/api/latest/jvm/stdlib/kotlin/-string/index.html)!: the detail message. |