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Is Android Support Reposity includeable in Eclipse Neon?

for certain compatibility reasons, I have to use Eclipse Neon for Android Development to develop an android app. Therefore I also have to use the newest Android SDK so I can implement some newest features.
Now, I am facing the problem that I cannot compile any Android app with Eclipse, because I get errors like
The import android.support cannot be resolved
ActionBarActivity cannot be resolved to a type
Error retrieving parent for item: No resource found that matches the given name "ThemeAppCompat. …"
upon building. As I found out, this is because Eclipse is missing the "Android support library" (android support library.jar ?) in the sdk folder. The reason for this is, as I found out, that this library is obsolete and has been replaced by the "Android support repository". It has not been installed by the Android SDK manager and cannot be installed anymore, but Eclipse still needs it apparently.
I searched a lot for a solution for this but all answers I could find was "Swtich to Android Studio"… Unfortunately, there is no way around using Eclipse for me. Is there any known way to include the support repository and make eclipse use it? I found this site
https://developer.android.com/topic/libraries/support-library/setup.html
and thought, maybe I can follow these steps to make my app to a gradle.build and then include the stuff from the repository and get my stuff to work, but unfortunately I could not find a way to realize this.
I changed the related section in the gradle.build file to this:
…
dependencies {
…
compile 'com.android.support:appcompat-v7:24.0.0'
}
…
but could not get the app being built.
Is there any known solution for this? I actually cannot imagine that I am the only one trying to develop an Android App with the new support repository file these days. Should I maybe manually insert the obsolete (but newest) android support library.jar file from an older IDE? Could this work?
Thank you many times for your help.

appcompat_v7 Error in Eclipse(Android)

i'm new in android development . i installed Eclipse and JDK and Installed( API 20) and (API 8) and all the extras but when i opened eclipse for android project i got error in Appcompat_v7(res->values_v23->styles_base.xml->(
) .
Error is :enter image description here
Error retrieving parent for item: No resource found that matches the given name 'android:Widget.Material.Button.Colored'. styles_base.xml /appcompat_v7/res/values-v23

Change the Compile Sdk to 23. That Solve my Problem.

Update
As the OP has now Android Studio,
here are a few links to tackle the same,,
Boost up Gradle build time - 1
Boost up Gradle build time - 2
basically you need to add org.gradle.daemon=true to build.gradle file.
you can search for similar, and will find many threads on SO for the same,
Note: Its not "Guaranteed" to work but why not give a try
I would suggest you to use Android Studio instead of Eclipse.
Now the error, you will have to update your SDK platform to API 23 which is the Latest API(as of now), as it will require that particular version for compiling. Your current is API 20 which will not include the styles which is required by appcompat_v7.

Compiling and using AppCompatActivity in Eclipse

I have the latest Android Support Library, Android Support Repository and Google Repository (Rev. 23.1, 24, 22 respectively) and working with Eclipse Mars.1(4.5.1)
In the process of giving a make-over to an existing app, I am trying to import the v7.AppCompatActivity library, closing all other projects in workspace and silent prayers. ( ;-) )
Observations:
I daresay I have been unsuccessful even after following the instructions here to the dot.
Ian Lake's blog looks all hunky-dory, but Utopian.
Reading up tons of excellent answers on SO did not yet help. No matter what target is set in the project.properties page or what Build Target is set in the Eclipse Project Properties dialog - just cannot seem to get rid of this (and very similar) compile error(s):
android-support-v7-appcompat\res\values-v23\styles_base.xml:20: error: Error retrieving parent for item: No resource found that matches the given name 'android:Widget.Material.Button.Colored'.
Going by the number of similar questions, I am surely not alone. Pray, can someone kindly throw some light on how to import the v7 support library without going insane?
Thanks in advance!

None of the answers or blogs pointed out the following, except #pkuszewski.
The above issue resolves on
upgrading to Android 6 Marshmallow API 6.0 with the SDK manager
setting the Build Target for the AppCompat project to Android 6.0
Did I hear, "Duh"? :)
Thanks, #pkuszewski!
SDK Manager fragment looks like this, post the fix:

Fails to install andgram (android instagram)

I'm trying to install and test the andgram application available at https://github.com/markchang/android-instagram.git
But, some layout files show the following message and Eclipse doesn't generate the R.java file:
NOTE: This project contains resource errors, so aapt did not succeed, which can cause rendering failures. Fix resource problems first.
Couldn't resolve resource #style/ActionBar
I thought it was the SDK version, but I have the version 8 installed and it doesn't solve the problem.
I would appreciate any help.
Thanks!

The library you are trying use depends on the android-actionbar library. Have you downloaded that library and added it as a library project to your project?
Edit:
FYI, The actionbar library it depends on is outdated (2+ years).

You have change your build target to at least API 11 in order to support the ActionBar.

Phonegap 2.1 for Android - Hello World App 3 errors at launch

I developed something with Phonegap for iOS, but this is my first trial for Android.
I created my hello world application with CLI sth like this mentioned here:
$ /path/to/cordova-android/bin/create /path/to/my_new_cordova_project com.example.cordova_project_name CordovaProjectName
Even though I created this app in Eclipse Workspace, I needed to import it to Eclipse. I created two AVDs. One for API level 8, one for API level 16.
When I try to build, it gives me these three errors and a warning. What is wrong with my setup?
Description Resource Path Location Type
error: No resource identifier found for attribute 'hardwareAccelerated' in package 'android' AndroidManifest.xml /com.example.test.testprojectname line 20 Android AAPT Problem
error: No resource identifier found for attribute 'xlargeScreens' in package 'android' AndroidManifest.xml /com.example.test.testprojectname line 22 Android AAPT Problem
error: Error: String types not allowed (at 'configChanges' with value 'orientation|keyboardHidden|keyboard|screenSize|locale'). AndroidManifest.xml /com.example.test.testprojectname line 51 Android AAPT Problem
The import android.app.Activity is never used testprojectname.java /com.example.test.testprojectname/src/com/example/test line 22 Java Problem

Go to Project -> Properties -> Android and select a newer SDK (preferably the latest one), after that run Project -> Clean. That worked for me.

Check the minSdkVersion and targetSdkVersion attributes in your AndroidManifest.xml. It sounds like you're building the app for an older SDK version that didn't have the attributes that are producing the errors. Try to set both min and target to 11 and see what happens.

You should always be building for the latest SDK. It looks like your Eclipse setup is using an old version of Android (Android 2.2?). hardwareAccelerated and xlargeScreens is from Android 3.x. I recommend making sure your project uses the latest version fo the SDK in Eclipse. This has nothing to do with your Android Manifest, and is actually an eclipse setting.

By default android version is 2.1; you must right click on root folder of you project, select properties, then in android select new version; try to reload it and it wrok...

You should always be building for the latest SDK. It looks like your Eclipse setup is using an old version of Android (Android 2.2?). hardwareAccelerated and xlargeScreens is from Android 4.x. I recommend making sure your project uses the latest version of the SDK in Eclipse.
(or)
after creating your project Do the following steps
Right click your project -> properties --> change the Android target version as 4.x