Unable to instantiate activity ComponentInfo

Question

I am developing an application for Froyo as minimum version and Gingerbread as the target version. So, the manifest shows:

Answer 1

As it turns out, the project files were missing some of the builders required for the apk to be correctly made. That's why it was not able to find the Dashboard class.

The solution is to create an empty Android project and compare the automatically generated .project and .properties files with the ones in your broken project.