By Alvin Alexander. Last updated: June 6, 2016
I don’t remember the exact error message, but if you’re trying to use FreeMarker with Android and you get an error that says something like “Freemarker - NoClassDefFoundError TextBlock”, the root cause of the problem seems to be that FreeMarker uses the java.beans library under the hood, and the Android version of Java does not implement this. As a result, FreeMarker won’t work with Android, at least not without some modifications, as of January, 2016.
I wish I could give you more details, but I’ve moved on from FreeMarker, and I’m looking at other templating libraries for my Android application.
