When I create an android project in Eclipse (Helios) and open for example main.xml and click on layout view - program closes. If I start eclipse over again and try click in project view on main.xml it happens again.
In the official installation instructions for Android, they tell you not to use Eclipse 3.6 (Helios). Not that many people notice, three lines above that, they still tell you to use "Eclipse 3.4 and above", plus the link they still have there (http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/) points to the latest Eclipse, which is currently 3.6!
The real link is http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/packages/release/galileo/sr2
I urge you to do things correctly and reinstall Eclipse. You may have other problems if you keep 3.6. For instance, on some (but not all) computers, Eclipse 3.6 (Helios) may hang (or gets really slow) when doing auto-complete (it's looking for a non-existent folder).
Also, you won't be able to find Eclipse 3.5 Classic as the documentation still says, Eclipse Classic Galileo is no longer available on Eclipse.org, instead you should install Eclipse Galileo RCP 32-bit (Galileo doesn't have a good 64-bit version).
Just be sure to do a check for all updates, then install the ADT update site, restart eclipse, close all perspectives, reopen the Java perspective, and go to Windows > Preferences and click on 'android' on the left and make sure it found the old location of your android sdks.
Turned out that I had 2 virtual machine- 1.5 and 1.6, in Java Settings tab of project settings I set the path to the new version and UI view has become operational.
Try to right click on the main.xml document in the project navigator and select open with a different method. Can you get Eclipse to open it any of the other built-in ditors?
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I have downloaded ADT Plugin for Eclipse. I don't see Android anywhere either when creating a new project, Preferences or "Customize perspective"
I have searched for the answer but I couldn't find it. The only thing that I didn't try is opening "command group availability" tab mentioned in forum not showing Android And AVD manager in eclipse because I can't see it at my setup.
I'm using Eclipse Neon.2 with JDK jdk1.8.0_121. I didn't add a PATH variable in my system. Not sure if I have to or not.
Android ADT doesn't seem to work for me in Neon too (same errors and long time search on startup without results)
There is a new Eclipse Android dedicated IDE now at https://eclipse.org/downloads/packages/eclipse-android-developers-includes-incubating-components/neon2 Must be installed in a separate folder with separate workspace (and renamed if needed) and all existing Android projects can be moved there. Afterwards i uninstalled ADT from the original Eclipse folder.
There is Installation Instructions for Google Plugin for Eclipse 4.6 (Neon)
https://developers.google.com/eclipse/docs/install-eclipse-4.6
It appears that either Eclipse Neon.2 stopped supporting ADT or that it has issues with it. I went back to Eclipse Neon.1 and I can find Android references all over, so I think the issue is something to do with Eclipse Neon.2.
Thanks to all of you who tried to help.
UPDATE:
It appears that for Neon.2 there is a separate package for Android that you can find here:
http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/packages/eclipse-android-developers-includes-incubating-components/neon2
I've installed the latest JRE, eclipse and I have the ADT plugin installed in eclipse. Somehow the android tools don't show up in the window. Instead, there are blank spaces where it should've been. Any help would be appreciated.
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Switch to the Java perspective (you are currently in the 'Resource' perspective): Window->Open Perspective->Java (you may need to select from the Other dialog box).
If you don't see Java as an option, you may have downloaded Eclipse classic, rather than Eclipse for Java Developers.
Could you try to close and restart eclipse ? Also, make sure you have the sdk plugin installed correctly.
Is the Android SDK properly installed?
Was Eclipse restarted after that?
You can also download a Android Developer Bundle that contains all what you need (Eclipse, ADT) except JDK.
What could be happening is that your buttons are simply not visible, it's just matter of adding them to your toolbar. Just right click on your toolbar and hit Customize, On the Tool Bar Visibility tab make sure Android SDK and AVD Manager is selected. That should do the trick.
I am a beginner to android development,I have downloaded adt-bundle-windows-x86_64 with android 4.2 and started the eclipse version(Android developer tools) provided with it.But when I click finish after filling all the details in new android application dialog box,the finish button doesn't seem to respond at all.At the first click on finish button an application is created but no java files in it and the dialog box stays still.At least the android 4.2 library is not in the application.src is also empty.
I'm working with Windows 7 64bit and JDK 1.6 64bit.
Any idea on solving this?
http://developer.android.com/training/basics/firstapp/creating-project.html
http://developer.android.com/tools/help/adt.html
http://www.chhitizbuchasia.com/articles/chhitiz/2011/02/Setup%20Android%20SDK%20With%20Eclipse.html
http://developer.android.com/sdk/installing/installing-adt.html
Cannot create a new Android Project using Eclipse
install android sdk manager
step1
step2
step3
install the following sdk to perform the application
Download ADT plugin
http://developer.android.com/sdk/installing/installing-adt.html#Download
BASIC STEPS
http://blog.teamtreehouse.com/the-one-stop-android-sdk-installer-you-always-wanted
Best Jvm setting
Eclipse is not that much robust IDE.If nothing can solve your issue.try to restart Eclipse and your Computer.
and yes,before restarting just update the packages.
Go to SDK Manager, and install available updates for following packages.
Android SDK Tools
Android SDK Platform-tools
After updating,it will be look like this,
I just got mine past this bug; hopefully yours will fix too?
On the screens with menus to select from, where one item is greyed (selected?) as default:
Deliberately click the item, to ACTUALLY select it (it turns dark blue or something).
Mine apparently got caught up on the "Make activity" (or whatever) page, and until I went back and assumed that the default had failed to select it, I was unable to choose finish (even though it clicked, looked as though it was going to do something, and then didn't go).
I've just installed IntelliJ IDEA 10.0.0.2 Community edition
I've installed Android SDK ... (C:\Program Files\Android\android-sdk-windows)
I want to make a new android project, so I a create a new project, select Android Module, next , next...
Then when i need to choose the JDK, I go to the android folder, and when i try to choose it, I get this error:
The selected directory is not a valid
home for JSDK
What am I doing wrong ? what can i do to fix this ?
I Installed android SDK with all the updates
When I choose IntelliJ IDEA Plugin SDK i get:
The selected directory is not a valid
home for IntelliJ IDEA Plugin SDK
EDIT:
Still not solved...
I've already chose the SDK itself and chose android 2.2 Platform when creating the project.
Can't load the JDK files. So i won't me compile, i get this error
Cannot start compiler: the SDK is not
specified for module "blah".
Specify the SDK at Project Structure
dialog.
To develop Android applications in IntelliJ IDEA you need to set both Java SDK (JSDK) and Android SDK:
Configuring Project SDK
Java SDK
Setting Android SDK/Platform
You also need to run SDK Manager application and download Android platforms which you are going to use.
Note that you can detach all the jars from the JSDK configuration in IDEA if you are going to use it only for Android, this will help with the code completion so that only classes available in Android will be suggested by the IDE.
I also recommend to read the following tutorials:
Developing applications for Android in IntelliJ IDEA
Developing Android applications on the base of existing sources
EDIT:
Configuring project's link has been updated
JSDK is the Java SDK. On my Debian it's under /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun
My installation path was "C:\Users\User\AppData\Local\Android\android-sdk." That confused IDEA since it doesn't seem to be able to see hidden folders, even when typing in the full path. Bummer...I fixed it though, by setting AppData as visible.
I just wasted a whole lot of time on this problem. My work station is running IntelliJ Ultimate 11 on Windows 7 64-bit. I was setting up my first Android project. Therefore, no SDKs were configured. First I selected the JDK, which was a no-brainer (C:\ProgramFiles (x86)\Java\jdk1.6.0_30). Next comes the part where you need to specify the Android SDK. First you click the elipsis ("...") and then click "Add New". Now here's the kicker... If you look carefully at the dialog box, you'll notice that "Configure new JSDK" is highlighted by default. What you need to do is change the selection to "Android SDK". Now you can select the directory of your Android SDK and you won't get that stupid error message.
I literally wasted about a half an hour before I realized why the app kept telling me "This is not a valid SDK directory." Hopefully this will help someone else having the same problem.
Don here: I had the same trouble in Windows 64 with 11.1.2 and 64bit java. found that only by clicking on the left window could I register my Android SDK.
When you first create Android project/module, you must choose JDK, for this click "+" and select "JSDK" in menu, then select where your Java SDK is, for instance "c:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_20". Then click "Next" and in "SDK Properties" panel click "New" and select path to your Android SDK (a directory where "SDK Manager.exe" is).
Click the + symbol in the left most pane in the Select android sdk window during the creation of the project and then select the android SDK (default= c/program files/android/android-sdk)
I had a real hard time seeing how to do this on a mac, since you can't download the jdk from sun's site
#Szabolcs Berecz #Yochai On a mac, you'll need to get the source as described here:
or just jump to the download here:
Then it stored in this location:
1.6.x /System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/1.6.0/Home/src.jar
If you right click in the leftmost window you can create a new Android Plugin or some such. I was just fighting with this myself. I have never used IntelliJ before and really their docs are out of date. Apparently not up to the current version.
In the JDK part you need to choose the JAVA JDK that was downloaded. (not the android)
C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_24\
Make sure you have installed JDK 1.5 or 1.6
(1.7 is not works for some reason with Android SDK).
I had the same problem ("The selected directory is not a valid home for Android SDK"),
but after installing 1.6 JSDK - it`s work for me.
I've got the same problem with version 12 on linux, Android module does not show java sdk location and android sdk location selection fails because java sdk is not set.
I've solved by making a java project, that lets me select java sdk and android sdk (strange right?), after making such a project I can make an android project because android sdk is now configured
I've spent 30 minutes solving a foolish problem
For IntelliJ & Android on Linux.
If the "Android SDK" Menu comes up with a red 'No Android SDK' Click the browse button to the RIGHT of the drop down. - Its a different layout in Linux to Windows.
In my case, I needed to add support for android, so, I searched for android in the plugins settings.
Fixed! I needed to run IntelliJ as Administrator IDEA. Now it will approve my Android SDK directory of "C:\Program Files (x86)\Android\android-sdk"
I'm using Windows 7 and installed the 64 bit version of Eclipse 3.5.2. I then installed the Android ADT plugin, but when I try to configure it in the Windows > Preferences dialog, the Android Plugin doesn't show up in the left pane. Instead I see DDMS. This prevents me from specifying the location of the Android SDK (unless there is another way) to give me the appropriate templates and such.
Someone posted a fix to this that includes setting the permissions of Eclipse, but that didn't work for me. I tried installing the Android Plugin from both online installation (thru the URL install) and the offline Archive method.
If you're running Windows Vista or 7, make sure you right-click Eclipse and RUN AS ADMINISTRATOR. I literally spent six hours figuring this out, and this was what fixed it.
Dear people from the future:
I had roughly the same problem in linux, except that i didn't see anything at all but vanilla eclipse after installing. by combining both previous answers i got it to work:
start eclipse with sudo eclipse -clean, install the plugins and restart eclipse. the plugins showed up including the welcome screen that's supposed to be there.
after that it should work when running as regular user as well.
works for both the android sdk and the gwt sdk. (and probably other eclipse plugins)
Remove the plugin, then restart as follows:
eclipse -clean
Now try reinstalling the ADT from the online installation
For users having similar problem and not luck with other solutions:
I have windows XP but had same problem. I realized that I had JDK5/bin folder in my PATH environment variable (though my JDK_HOME was pointing to JDK6), as soon as I modified the PATH to replace bin of JDK5 with JDK6, the Android buttons on eclipse (after restart with -clean) along with Android option in Preferences & New Project showed up. (Weird eh!)
Also, consider to install the bundle android installation having eclipse with pre-configured Android SDK if a new eclipse installation doesn't matter to you
http://developer.android.com/sdk/installing/bundle.html
The above answers do not confront the heart of the problem. There is a feature in Windows 7 that prevents downloaded files from direct access of local files. All of the state is perfectly maintained in the Eclipse workspace instance. The problem is easily resolved by doing the following:
Find the "Eclipse" executable
Right-click on it.
Click "Properties".
Select the "General" tab.
Look for -> Security: "This file came from another computer and might be blocked..."
Click Unblock.
This is a much better solution than uninstalling and reinstalling the ADT or Eclipse which can be a pain.