I've downloaded the Android SDK. I am trying to build the appcompat project. I've read that project is located here:
C:\Android\sdk\extras\android\support\v7\appcompat
I have imported the project into my workspace. It doesn't build.
I could go into great detail about which SDKs I have installed on my machine, etc. I could say that the values-v11, values-v14, and values-v21 folders all have errors, even though I have downloaded all three of these SDKs. But I am pretty sure if I import a project from the Android SDK website from the Android developer website, and I try to build that project, it should just work. I've followed the instructions here:
https://developer.android.com/tools/support-library/setup.html#libs-with-res
...and still not working.
So, why does this not work? I don't even care how to get it to work, I want to know why this does not work and why would I have to do any extra work or research to get it to build? Is this a problem with Eclipse? Should I be giving up on Eclipse and moving to Android Studio? This appears to be an incredibly simple thing to do and yet it does not work anymore.
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Why don't we have a file similar to the .xcodeproj (for XCode applications) or an .xds (for Sencha Architect Projects) for our Android Studio Project?
I'm pretty sure a good number of you here have experienced the frustration of trying to import a project you see online in order to piece it apart better and learn how it works. I get that we are supposed to Import Android Projects built using Eclipse and Open Android Projects built using Android Studio.
However, why is it that we have to go through File -> Open -> then pick out the directory of the Android Studio app that we want to open? And the thing is, Android Studio doesn't seem to know it's an Android Studio project until it tries to open and build it. In the screenshot I have below, I have the sample Android Studio projects of ARToolKit, but I've only imported two of them.
As you can see, only those I've imported "can be seen as an Android Studio Project" as indicated that they have the Android Studio logo instead of a Folder.
This can be an issue for those just starting to develop in Android Studio on their own and they try and use existing projects (build from Eclipse or Android Studio) and they hit a snag with just trying to import the projects for reference. They might not know that they should import the folder and not the projectname/src subfolder. It adds to the "steep learning curve" that Android Development has if opening/importing projects aren't streamlined to a degree.
To sum up, my question is:
Why don't we have a single file that we can open that would in turn open Android Studio and import and build the project if it isn't built yet?
Android is not iOS. iOS development is only possible in xcode, hence it makes sense they added a shortcut to open it in xcode directly with a .xcodeproj file. Make life easier for iOS developers.
Android development however can be done outside of android studio as well. Eclipse is just one example, there may be other IDE's that support this. This is possible because android has standalone SDKs and tools that third party applications can use. iOS does not.
Imagine you are working on an android project in android studio. Then your boss tells you someone from 3000km away is going to help you. This guy may be using android studio, but maybe he isn't. When there are multiple options that developers can choose from individually, you do not want to pollute version control with files that you are using, but others may not care about. Each their environment.
This is merely a logical conclusion that you can come to by comparing. The "real" reason why this was done can only be answered by the people that created (adapted intellij) android studio.
This has been very frustrating to me too.
I try to give you a "beta" answer, waiting somebody to confirm it to me.
An Android project is just the composition of many parts that in some cases are concurrent to create the apk file.
It's just like what happens for the whole java projects: you have the main/src/java, the main/src/test, the maver or gradle files, the gradle or maven wrapper, the manifest, the configuration etc.
So you won't have a single project, but a series of folders that can contain many "flavours" or "versions" of the product itself.
The only help it is given to us is the Android studio icon that appears if a folder contains an android project in its subfolders.
I don't know if I have really answered to you, I just have given you my impressions and my thought.
So I've been trying to install libgdx for a few days with Eclipse and it kept telling me various things (Android ADT, Java JDK, etc.) needed to be updated, so I did that, but I kept getting the same error.
Then I decided to download an older version (0.9.8) and I used the gdx-setup-ui.jar to set up my projects. But upon opening them in the Eclipse/ADT bundle, the Android and HTML projects had errors in them involving the import statements, which I tried to solve to no avail.
This is the tutorial I've mainly tried to follow.
Does anybody have a solution for me to get it to work? I'm most familiar with Eclipse, having worked with it for Android for a while now, so I'd prefer not to switch IDEs.
Thanks in Advance
Use ADT (Android Developer Tools) instead of Eclipse. (Is the same thing anyways)
http://developer.android.com/tools/index.html
If you got errors after importing your projects on android, right click on the android project, and at android, check the version that is there.
For HTML you need to install the GWT plugin.
Recently libGDX has moved to Gradle, so you might want to look over that
https://github.com/libgdx/libgdx/wiki/Project-Setup-Gradle
Just a quick question I did not find a good answer on. We are currently working on an APP created with Eclipse ADT Bundle. I recently started exploring Android Studio, and like it. Is it possible to still collaborate with my mates using Eclipse with a shared GitHub repo?
I noticed Android Studio converts the project to its own file structure, so I guess this does not go well with Eclipse, and the repo.
Is there any solutions for this? So I can keep developing in Android Studio, push to GitHub, while the rest of the team use Eclipse?
I think you can do it, you'll just have to explicitly define a sourceSet that matches the Eclipse structure. If you use any other build variants, they can't have any sourceSets because you wouldn't be able to check those files in to source control. However, there are several useful things you can do with build variants just with the build file. I think you can check in the build.gradle and other gradle stuff and it won't mess up your coworkers.
I have ros, rosjava, and android_core on my Ubuntu machine, as well as Eclipse and the Android SDK and ADT. Now, I'm trying to create an android application using the following instructions but I'm having trouble:
http://docs.rosjava.googlecode.com/hg/android_core/html/getting_started.html#getting-started
After copying the android_tutorial_pubsub into another folder and trying to open it with Eclipse I get a bunch of unrecognized packages. Eclipse doesn't know where to find ros classes (such as RosActivity) and I'm not sure how to import them. I tried importing the android_core as per: http://ros.org/wiki/android_core#Eclipse_configuration and that creates another project called MasterChooser that I can then link to the pubsub tutorial to fix some of the referencing errors, but the projects (pubsub and MasterChooser) still don't recognize certain files that are in rosjava. For this I tried File->Import->General->File System and then manually select the rosjava packages but that still leaves some issues.
Overall I feel there must be a simpler way to make the android app (pubsub) reference both android_core and rosjava, but my lack of experience in ros and in eclipse are making this hard. In short, I really just want to be able to run the tutorial apps (like pubsub) from Eclipse into my android device.
I posted this question on the IntelliJ community forums but it seems as if they aren't very active so I'll just post it right here on S/O. I'm new to IntelliJ and I'm switching to use it from Eclipse which was really buggy and not useful to my needs. However, I'm attempting to build an Android project in IntelliJ Idea and it is only creating a .idea folder and the src directory without any inner files in them like it should. I've got the Android-SDK properly installed and I'm using JDK 1.7 and I'm even following the directions to properly start an Android project from the IntelliJ Wiki (found here) but it still leads me to no success. It seems as if I've got the Android Support plugin already installed with my program but then again I'm not really sure. Can I get some help please so I don't have to revert back to Eclipse again? Thanks.
Try to delete Android SDK and install it again, then download at least one Platform. IDEA runs SDK tools to create Android project template, for some reason it's failing on your system.
Check if it works better with JDK 1.6.
See the screencast that I've just recorded.