android things - PeripheralManagerService throws NoClassDefFoundError

Question

I have the following code in my app to access PeripheralManagerService:

PeripheralManagerService service = new PeripheralManagerService();
Gpio ledGpio;
try {
    ledGpio = service.openGpio("BCM6");
    ledGpio.setDirection(Gpio.DIRECTION_OUT_INITIALLY_LOW);
} catch (IOException e) {
    Log.e(TAG, "Error configuring GPIO pins", e);
}

After updating to the latest Android Things (Developer Preview 7), my app is now throwing a NoClassDefFoundError:

java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: Failed resolution of: Lcom/google/android/things/pio/PeripheralManagerService;
...
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: Didn't find class "com.google.android.things.pio.PeripheralManagerService" on path: DexPathList[...]

This code was working before, why has this started happening after the update?

Answer 1

Starting in Preview 7, Android Things API services are not constructed as new instances. They are instead accessed as singletons via getInstance() to be more in line with Android API paradigms. Some of the classes, such as PeripheralManagerService were also renamed.

Be sure to update your app to use the Preview 7 SDK:

dependencies {
    compileOnly 'com.google.android.things:androidthings:0.7-devpreview'
}

Then modify your code to access the PeripheralManager instead:

PeripheralManager manager = PeripheralManager.getInstance();
Gpio ledGpio;
try {
    ledGpio = manager.openGpio("BCM6");
    ledGpio.setDirection(Gpio.DIRECTION_OUT_INITIALLY_LOW);
} catch (IOException e) {
    Log.e(TAG, "Error configuring GPIO pins", e);
}

Review the Android Things API reference to verify if any of the other APIs you are calling have changed.