RemoteException | API reference | Android Developers

Added in API level 1

Summary: Ctors | Methods | Inherited Methods

RemoteException

Kotlin |Java

public class RemoteException
extends AndroidException

Known direct subclasses

DeadObjectException, TransactionTooLargeException

DeadObjectException	The object you are calling has died, because its hosting process no longer exists, or there has been a low-level binder error.
TransactionTooLargeException	The Binder transaction failed because it was too large.

Known indirect subclasses

DeadSystemException

DeadSystemException The core Android system has died and is going through a runtime restart.

Parent exception for all Binder remote-invocation errors Note: not all exceptions from binder services will be subclasses of this. For instance, RuntimeException and several subclasses of it may be thrown as well as OutOfMemoryException. One common subclass is DeadObjectException.

Summary

Public constructors
`RemoteException()`
`RemoteException(String message)`

Public methods
`RuntimeException`	`rethrowAsRuntimeException()` Rethrow this as an unchecked runtime exception.
`RuntimeException`	`rethrowFromSystemServer()` Rethrow this exception when we know it came from the system server.

Inherited methods

From class


        
          java.lang.Throwable

`final void`	`addSuppressed(Throwable exception)` Appends the specified exception to the exceptions that were suppressed in order to deliver this exception.
`Throwable`	`fillInStackTrace()` Fills in the execution stack trace.
`Throwable`	`getCause()` Returns the cause of this throwable or `null` if the cause is nonexistent or unknown.
`String`	`getLocalizedMessage()` Creates a localized description of this throwable.
`String`	`getMessage()` Returns the detail message string of this throwable.
`StackTraceElement[]`	`getStackTrace()` Provides programmatic access to the stack trace information printed by `printStackTrace()`.
`final 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`	`initCause(Throwable cause)` Initializes the cause of this throwable to the specified value.
`void`	`printStackTrace()` Prints this throwable and its backtrace to the standard error stream.
`void`	`printStackTrace(PrintWriter s)` Prints this throwable and its backtrace to the specified print writer.
`void`	`printStackTrace(PrintStream s)` Prints this throwable and its backtrace to the specified print stream.
`void`	`setStackTrace(StackTraceElement[] stackTrace)` Sets the stack trace elements that will be returned by `getStackTrace()` and printed by `printStackTrace()` and related methods.
`String`	`toString()` Returns a short description of this throwable.

From class


        
          java.lang.Object

`Object`	`clone()` Creates and returns a copy of this object.
`boolean`	`equals(Object obj)` Indicates whether some other object is "equal to" this one.
`void`	`finalize()` Called by the garbage collector on an object when garbage collection determines that there are no more references to the object.
`final Class<?>`	`getClass()` Returns the runtime class of this `Object`.
`int`	`hashCode()` Returns a hash code value for the object.
`final void`	`notify()` Wakes up a single thread that is waiting on this object's monitor.
`final void`	`notifyAll()` Wakes up all threads that are waiting on this object's monitor.
`String`	`toString()` Returns a string representation of the object.
`final void`	`wait(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(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()` Causes the current thread to wait until it is awakened, typically by being notified or interrupted.

Public constructors

RemoteException

Added in API level 1

public RemoteException ()

RemoteException

Added in API level 15

public RemoteException (String message)

Parameters
`message`	`String`

Public methods

rethrowAsRuntimeException

Added in API level 30

public RuntimeException rethrowAsRuntimeException ()

Rethrow this as an unchecked runtime exception.

Apps making calls into other processes may end up persisting internal state or making security decisions based on the perceived success or failure of a call, or any default values returned. For this reason, we want to strongly throw when there was trouble with the transaction.

Returns
`RuntimeException`	This value cannot be `null`.

Throws
	java.lang.RuntimeException

rethrowFromSystemServer

Added in API level 30

public RuntimeException rethrowFromSystemServer ()

Rethrow this exception when we know it came from the system server. This gives us an opportunity to throw a nice clean DeadSystemRuntimeException signal to avoid spamming logs with misleading stack traces.

Apps making calls into the system server may end up persisting internal state or making security decisions based on the perceived success or failure of a call, or any default values returned. For this reason, we want to strongly throw when there was trouble with the transaction.

Returns
`RuntimeException`	This value cannot be `null`.

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java.lang.Object
↳	java.lang.Throwable
	↳	java.lang.Exception
		↳	android.util.AndroidException
			↳	android.os.RemoteException

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RemoteException

Summary

Public constructors

Public methods

Inherited methods

Public constructors

RemoteException

RemoteException

Public methods

rethrowAsRuntimeException

rethrowFromSystemServer