About 2 months ago I was setting up an Android development environment, and noticed a warning on the Android SDK page that stated "There are known issues with the ADT plugin running with Eclipse 3.6. Please stay on 3.5 until further notice." - so
I posted a question here about this and from the responses decided, to install Eclipse ver 3.5
I never saw a notice that it was safe to upgrade, but...
- The warning is now missing from the Android SDK page
- I thought I read (maybe I'm wrong, because I can't find it now) a comment that some of the Android tutorials were now assuming Eclipse ver 3.6.1
Can I assume it is now safe to upgrade to Android 3.6.1 ?
The Eclipse IDE for Java Developers download page still seems to be at 3.6.0 ?
Comments Welcome
I believe it is fine, i upgraded my desktop environment to 3.6.1 and everything seems to be running fine.
Confirmed: Here is the link to the requirements page. It now says anything greater than 3.4 will work.
Eclipse 3.4 (Ganymede) or greater
Eclipse Link Requirements
I upgraded to the latest 3.6 and it was OK except that the content assist for the Android classes was very slow, i.e you would type 'textView.' (where textView is a TextView) and wait for ages for all the available methods to be shown.
This issue is a known bug reported at
Code Assist still Slow
Down near the bottom of this thread, someone identified a fix:
*https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=329288 contains patch
that fixes this issue.
Unfortunately patch is applied only in 3.7 branch.
I have patched org.eclipse.jdt.core from Helios 3.6.1 with the patch
attached in this bug and create a patched plugin.
You can replace your /plugins/
org.eclipse.jdt.core_3.6.1.v_A68_R36x.jar plugin with one from
http://adt-addons.googlecode.com/svn/patches/org.eclipse.jdt.core_3.6...
and restart Eclipse. Content Assists will be much better. Just try it.
Don't forget backup your original plugins.
Peco*
I applied this patch and everything works fine now.
I always used Eclipse Helios 3.6.1 for my android programming and I never had any problems, I don't know what the problems were but I didn't find any. Sometimes my R.java doesn't seem to connect with my other classes but I solve that by either restarting my Eclipse of just clean my project, most of the times clean project works perfectly.
The ADT plugin also works fine. It upgrades correctly and I can see all my versions when I create a new project
I did see people having project to even install the google ADT plugin when looking for new software but I didn't come accross that problem. It just installed the first time. with the new update however it seems that my adb.exe doesn't seem to be in my tools folder and Eclipse looks there, so I just copied it from my platform-tools to my tools folder and got it working.
When I tried to update the 2.3 sdk to 2.3.1 in Eclipse 3.6.1, I had to clean all my projects as well as start Eclipse several times before everything could be installed successfully. Other than that, I've had no problems at all.
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I've been using ADT for about a year now.
We have a Git project on bitbucket.
Just before Christmas I started having some performance issues when pulling/fetching from our repository.
What appears to happen is that the fetch downloads the changes, but then my PC runs for hours resolving the deltas.
Looking at the task manager shows javaw.exe using a single core, and nearly a Gig of memory. It will eventually complete, but this process used to only take minutes. Here's a screenshot:
This is where it's "stuck"
As you can see, it's not the worlds largest update.
My Eclipse version is 4.2.1.v20130118-173121-9MF7GHYdG0B5kx4E_SkfZV-1mNjVATf67ZAb7.
My ADT version is 23.0.2.1259578.
JDK is now 1.7u75, it was 1.7u55 before I updated it.
I know this is a pretty random question, but I have no idea what else to try.
Any help greatly appreciated.
It seems more a stability problem of your pc. However if your problem seems to be on javaw.exe i suggest to update to last JDK jdk-8u31 you can find it for all platform on http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/jdk8-downloads-2133151.html.
If is not a problem for your project try to change version of Eclipse switching to
Eclipse Java EE IDE for Web Developers.
Version: Luna Service Release 1a (4.4.1)
Build id: 20150109-0600
This is the last Eclipse version, code name Luna and supports well JDK 8.
I recently updated my version of eclipse from 3.6 to 3.7
(Using Mac OS X 10.6.8 & Eclipse 3.7). I did this to install EGit. Since, then I have noticed that none of the changes to my App are being reflected in my AVD's.
When setting up EGit I realized that it had moved my working location to another location on my system. I figured this might be the issue, so I removed my EGit repository and restored my App from a backup. The problem continue leading me to believe the problem likely lies (I could be wrong) with the upgrade to Eclipse 3.7.
I have tried many other things, but none seem to work. So far I have..
Uninstalled my App from the AVD, and then re-ran application. This made no difference.
I have tried creating a new fresh AVD. Same deal here, same un-change version of app is applied.
I tried stop and restarting the adb.
I have tried to 'Clean up' the Project.
All attempts so far have failed.
Has anyone else out there seen this problem or have any suggestions?
I think the next thing I might try is updating my Android plug-ins. If this fails I Afraid my next option is to uninstall Eclipse completely and start from scratch.
Any suggestions would be great.
I solved the problem.
My guess of updating the Android SDK was correct.
In Elipse I went to Window -> Android SDK Manager.
I installed the available updates:
Android SDK Tools 22.0.1,
Android SDK Platform-Tools 17,
Android SDK Build Tools 17. After the install restarted Eclipse and then boom! My AVD was back and showing my newest changes. Hope this helps some one.
I am a new Android developer (4 weeks into porting my iPhone app to Android). I have 8 projects (the app, and 6 small UI experiments, and a vanilla Hello World project that I just created with Eclipse). All fail to compile, and the issue is that every reference to the generated file R is flagged as "R cannot be resolved to a variable".
Up until yesterday afternoon -- every project compiled and ran (albeit very slowly) in the Android emulator. I've changed something, and since yesterday, all projects fail to compile, all in the exact same manner "R cannot be resolved to a variable". I every case, the generated files are missing. I believe they disappeared as I tried to clean and rebuild each project in the course of debugging this problem.
Two things that I know changed when this problem started, but that I can't say caused the problem, were: 1) shifting to debugging on a real Android device (a Samsung Galaxy Tab 2, which worked like a champ after struggling with the slow emulators), and 2) allowing Android (and perhaps Eclipse) to update themselves from the web.
I've spent many hours trying other user's suggestions and none have helped. Most suggestions refer to file naming issues, xml syntax errors, but I haven't changed these files and filenames since compilation was working. I have tried:
cleaning and rebuilding the projects
checking for subsequent updates to the Android SDK (and there were 2 subsequent ones)
Eclipse->File->Android Tools->Fix Project Properties
making small source changes to force rebuilding
rebooting Eclipse, as well as the Mac host, adb, the emulator, the Android SDK Manager
deleting a project, restarting Eclipse, and adding the project back in (bad idea - this fails with an error "Failed to load properties file for project 'ListViewFragmentTest'"
creating a brand new Android App project, which has worked many times before, but now fails
There's something going systematically wrong, and while I won't claim all these projects are bug-free, they did run up until 6pm yesterday, and then all stopped compiling thereafter.
I wonder if anyone has other suggestions, before I embarking with a complete reinstall of the development environment?
My environment is:
Macbook Pro (OS X 10.7.5, 8GB RAM, 2.53GHx Core i5)
Eclipse (Indigo Service Release 2, Build: 20120216-1857) (too old?)
Android SDK Manager Rev 22
Android SDK Tools (22), Platform Tools (17), Build Tools (17)
API's 11-17, all up-to-date
Seems like lots of people experience trouble with missing generated files (R), and I have had trouble when I've had layout XML errors as well, but that doesn't seem to be causing this problem. Thanks in advance for your help!
I am not sure but you are facing issue of R.java file is not getting generated after updated with ADT rev 22.
If this is the case then here is the solution:
Hope you know Android studio has gradle building tool. Same as in eclipse they have given new component in the Tools folder called Android SDK Build-tools that needs to be installed. Open the Android SDK Manager, select the newly added build tools, install it, restart the SDK Manager after the update.
Check in the Java build path library, whether "src" check box is checked or not.
If you are using any additional Libraries then make sure libs/android-support-v4.jar is same for project as well as the Libraries.
Thanks everyone. None of these suggestions resolved my problem. And while I'm curious as to why it happened, I was more impatient with not making any progress. I've reloaded Eclipse and the Android tools (this time with the bundled version from developer.android.com), and everything is working smoothly again.
I have problem with compiling workspace fully functional after Update to ADT 2.1 , after some eclipse restarts and cannot find any mention about it anywhere. I am running Mac OS X Mountain Lion and I also tried to use Eclipse installation coming bundled with latest ADT 21. Problem is still repeating. It seems to me as bug.
In Android preferences of Eclipse there is message “No targets available” even thou folder is correctly setup to correct SDK.
So it toke mi almost two hours to find working solution for this bug. I reinstalled everything tried to go back to ADT 20 and then accidentally upgraded tools and again was forced to update ADT to 21 that is failing for me…
Solution is simply to have two correct Android SDK folders and you have to point eclipse to other folder, apply, it loads SDK correctly than you can go back to SDK you actually use and everything works. Well till next restart and yo have to do it again . Thank you Android developers , each new big update , new big bug on osx :)
There is another option (from https://stackoverflow.com/a/14045656/4100), if you did disable the android plugin from running at startup, this will happen. Enabling it should fix the bug.
I recently downloaded all the latest updates for my eclipse/Android plugins (before the upgrades everything worked fine). I got everything to work except when i try to create a new project I get a message that I need Android support library revision 8. I click Install/Upgrade and It proceeds to download and install the library. When it finishes the tiny download/install window disappears but the window which informs me that i need Android support library revision 8 remains open and i cant click finish to create new project. I tried closing the window and eclipse and trying it again but it always leads me to the window which states I need the Android support library revision 8. I didnt move eclipse to any other location and I am wondering what is wrong.
I had a problem before with an ! in my eclipse path and eclipse wouldnt work because of exit error 13. I posted a question about it before. My answer explains what has happened and the easy fix.
I am wondering what is wrong now. Do i need to manually link the support library?
Im really frustrated because its taking me forever to set this up.
Update:
I tried restarting eclipse and reinstalling the library multiple times.
I upgraded the android sdk tools and sdk platform-tools before i installed the support libraries.
Like these similar issue i'd for 2 days ago. Whenever, i'm trying to create a new project its showing me like below
For, this i've downloaded that support library using Install/Upgrade and in my path E:/Android/Android-Sdk/extras/android/compaitability I've changed the name of compaitability as support and after just restarted my Eclipse. Its working fine.
Hope these helps you.
Try updating android sdk tools and sdk platform-tools and restart eclipse? ADT has dependencies on these.