Android Jdbc Not Working: Classnotfoundexception on Driver

Android JDBC not working: ClassNotFoundException on driver

Does JDBC not work with Android?

JDBC is infrequently used on Android, and I certainly would not recommend it.

IMHO, JDBC is designed for high-bandwidth, low-latency, highly-reliable network connections (e.g., desktop to database server, Web application server to database server). Mobile devices offer little of these, and none of them consistently.

If so, tell me what alternatives I should look into for remote MySQL database access.

Create a Web service around your database and access that from Android.

As side benefits, you improve security (vs. leaving your database open), can offload some business logic from the client, can better support other platforms (e.g., Web or Web-based mobile frameworks), etc.

ClassNotFoundException when connecting with mysql jdbc connector on android

see: http://developer.android.com/search.html#q=dx&t=0
and Android JDBC not working: ClassNotFoundException on driver - my answer on the bottom gives ridiculously specific instructions, although I am curious how switching to 1.6 was useful.

ClassNotFoundException com.mysql.jdbc.Driver

The most common cause is that you have some conflict in where your classes are loaded from. For example if you have 2 locations and one has JDBC drivers and the other one not then if your classloader loads from the 1st location and some class from the 1st location wants to use the driver - the driver is not there. So look for the duplicate JARs that are using your driver

I'm getting a java.lang.classnotfoundexception: com.mysql.jdbc.Driver

You're getting a NoClassDefFoundError because your jar file is not available at runtime. In order for it to be available at runtime you'll have to check the checkboxes on your jar file in your java build path like so:

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