I'm trying to import and existing Android project into my current Eclipse workspace. I select File->New->Android Project, which brings up the Android project dialog, I then select, "Create project from existing source", Location, Build Target and Finish.
I get the following error: Invalid project description.
Does anybody know how to get past this error?
File → Import → General → Existing Projects into Workspace → Next
Select root directory: /path/to/project
Projects → Select All
Uncheck Copy projects into workspace and Add project to working sets
Finish
Solved: If you want to "Create project from existing source", you need to create a new directory and then put the project directory tree into that new directory. Then point to the new directory when importing.
This error message appears when the source code you try to import is inside an existing workspace.
Put your source code in a directory OUTSIDE any existing workspace and then import
Just delete the ".project" file in your project folder (it's hidden on Linux, use "ls -a" to show), then from Eclipse, choose Create Android Project from existing source
Im not sure this will solve your problem since I dont know where it originats from, but when I import a project i go File -> Import -> Existing projects into workspace. Maybe it will circumvent your problem.
It seems you cannot have your project root, with the AndroidManifest.xml deeper than one directory level below your workspace root. I struggled for an hour with this before I just gave up and rearranged my repo.
You can also use Make new > General > Project, then import the project to that project directory
I found James Wald's answer the closest to my solution, except instead of "File->Import->General->Existing Projects into Workspace" (which did not work for me at all) I used "File->Import->Android->Existing Android Code Into Workspace". I am using Helios, maybe your version of Eclipse does not have this quirk.
I had the problem of getting errors when checking out an Android project from SVN. This is what I did and the whole thing settled down.
1. checkout the project from SVN as we normally do any other project
2. right click and get properties of the project
3. In the java build path->order and export tab select the android API and OK it
this removed all the project issues
so far so good but not sure if this is the 100% correct method
This post helped me: http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=8431
In my Android Project folder .project file was missing. Restoring the .project file,which will be hidden in Unix OS environment resolved the error.
Updating #JamesWald's answer, and incorporating other comments. Assuming you want to create a cfesh copy from, say, a backup in your new workspace:
Put the existing project in a directory not inside the destination workspace.
In Eclipse: File->Import->Android->Existing Android Code into Workspace, Next
Select root directory: /path/to/project/from/step/1
Projects->Select All (or not, as the case may be)
Make sure you set the new project name correctly - To change one click on the old project name (left column) and then click on the new project name (right column) and then edit. It will default to the class name of the Default Activity.
Assuming you want a copy in the destination workspace, check "Copy projects into workspace"
uncheck "Add project to working sets"
Finish
Same problem happened to me as well and the .project file was not there in the project.
I copied a .project file from an existing android project and replace the project name with the name of the project I am trying to import.
Then using File -> Import -> Existing projects into workspace I was able to import the project.
What works for me is that: File > Import > Existing Project into Workspace (under General tab), then choose the project root folder. The importing of Existing Android Code into Workspace somehow does not work on Eclipse for me.
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I want to import this sample project from android so I can study the code however I am getting this error. Anyone know why?
No projects are found to import
Goto File -> Import -> Android -> Import existing project into workspace
Import the project in above method it will works .. baby
Yupe, you are importing the android code which is not having the AndrodiManifest.xml file. so instead of importing "existig project into the workspace" you need to import Android Code into the workspace.
Eclipse
File->New->Project->Android Project from Existing code->browse
Have a look at It:
Goto File > New > Project
Select the type of project, click Next
Uncheck Use default location
Click on Browse to navigate to your source folder, or type in the
path to your source
Click Finish
Eclipse is looking for eclipse projects, meaning its is searching for eclipse-specific files in the root directory, namely .project and .classpath. You either gave Eclipse the wrong directory (if you are importing a eclipse project) or you actually want to create a new project from existing source(new->project->android project from existing source).
Or Import -> Android -> Import existing project into workspace
I think you probably want the second one, because Eclipse projects usually have separate source & build directories. If your sources and .class files are in the same directory, you probably didn't have a eclipse project.
Edit:
1) File->Import->General->Existing Projects into Workspace.
2) Select root directory: /path/to/project
3) Projects->Select All
4) UNCHECK both "Copy projects into workspace" and "Add project to working sets"
5) Finish
Try this:
File -> import -> General -> Existing Project in Workplace - > Browse
I tried many answers there but non solved the problem.
I have an android project (lets name it t) that I created using the eclipse into its workspace folder.
I did the following:
I copied t into another place as a backup.
Then, I deleted it from eclipse -> R-click on t then delete.
When I checked the workspace, it was removed as expected.
Then.
I copied the backup into the workspace.
I tried to open it on eclipse, but with no success.
File -> Import -> Android -> Existing Android Code Into WorkSpace -> Next -> Browse (to the project folder in the workspace itself) -> Finish (Last step).
After the last step, the dialog box disappeared (as expected) without a warning message. But t was not added (became visible) into the Package Explorer of Eclipse!!.
I checked the workspace folder, the project t I wanted to open was still there
How to fix?
Try leaving the project folder outside of the workspace during the import.
When you re-import the project, check the "copy project files into workspace" box.
In my experience, manually copying projects into (or out of) the workspace can be troublesome.
New ->Other ->Android Project from Existing Code ->(Browse to Root Directory )->select Projects to Imports -> check Copy projects into working sets ->finish
I think that you should check the error log...probably Eclipse won't let you import it, with a message "Some projects cannot be imported because they already exist in the workspace". If this is the case, using/creating another workspace should fix the problem. If you don't want to change workspace, you may want to check this post.
So, I have been using eclipse in Windows for years. I have a few android projects that I have been working on lately. But I'm getting stuck on something so weird.
The problem is I'm using eclipse on both windows and Linux now. (Yeah i feel linux is better and much faster). I want to get all my projects that I was using on Windows into Linux Eclipse workspace (Yes I created another workspace because I didnt know if I could work on same workspace in both versions viz linux and windows eclipse). Now, the weird part is I CANNOT IMPORT THOSE PROJECTS INTO MY OTHER WORKSPACE! This is driving me crazy.
I go to my Linux Eclipse workspace -> Import -> Add existing android proj -> browse -> Root dir of my android project -> (Ecipse does show the projects on the frame below -> I click finish -> NOTHING. I just sit there, waiting, and nothing happens. I have searched around here in stackoverflow, but none of the problems resembles this.
Yes I have access to the workspace folder, yes I can create folders, etc etc.
Please can someone tell me how I can import projects that are being detected but NOT imported?
thanks.
I solved this by importing the project in the following manner:
File > Import > Android > Existing Android Code Into Workspace
Click Next, then Browse...
Select your project root directory, and check the box for Copy projects into workspace. Click Finish.
Hope it will help you.
I also faced the same problem for long, today only I found out the solution!
It's all lies in .project and .classpath files inside project's root directory. While trying to import any project into workspace, if your project does not gets listed, that means .project and/or .classpath files are either missing or corrupt. Usually these files are hidden, so you never know what is the issue.
For Ubuntu, follow steps below:
step 1. go to any project root directory in your workspace and press Ctrl+H to see hidden files.
step 2. copy .project and .classpath files from there and paste to the other project directory that you wanted to import.
step 3. Open the .project file and update name tag to project name.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<projectDescription>
<name>Name of the project</name>
<comment></comment>
....
step 4. close the folder and import the project, it will be definitely listed in the import wizard now!!
I also encountered the same problem.
you need to update ADT (Eclipse Plugin) to work with new Android SDK.
click Help > Check for Updates
after ADT updated, you can import your project from File > Import
Make sure to check to see if the AndroidManifest.xml file is present in either the folder or a sub folder. You must have that file in order to import.
This is the issue I had. Luckily I have the unlimited history feature in DropBox so I was able to use that to get the last existing version of the file. Once I added it, importing worked just fine.
I'm facing the same issue, here what i have done.
- In Eclipse, Go to windows -> Preferences
- choose Android, set your Android SDK Location
make sure you have at least one of the Android platform in the table.
- Apply and Ok.
done, I try import, and it's fine.
Hope it help.
It could be that the project already exists in the workspace. The solution is to either change your workspace location or just rename the project you're importing.
After importing the file, you can deselect the in library from properties section. It worked for me
if all the sulotions above didnt help you, open a new project with the same name as the imported project,after you do that, go to the Original project,open it and selcet all files with ctrl+A,and than copy paste it inside the new project,then click yes to all inside the alaert and it should work.
If none of the above answers help, check the permissions of the folder which contains the projects. In Ubuntu from command line try this:
sudo chmod 777 Folder_Containing_Projects -R
The above command will give permissions recursively.
I have an Android project developed on Eclipse (GNU/Linux) that I last touched half a year ago. I am trying to import the project into Eclipse 3.6 on Windows (with ADT installed) installed using File -> Import Project in Eclipse. When the project is imported, I see the following error twice on the console:
[2010-12-10 02:17:12 -
com.android.ide.eclipse.adt.internal.project.AndroidManifestHelper]
Unable to read C:\Program
Files\Android\android-sdk-windows\AndroidManifest.xml:
java.io.FileNotFoundException:
C:\Program
Files\Android\android-sdk-windows\AndroidManifest.xml
(The system cannot find the file
specified)
Why is Eclipse looking for AndroidManifest.xml on the Android SDK path? The file actually seems to be in the project's directory. How do I fix this problem and get the project to compile?
A simple solution is to either reimport the AndroidManifest.xml file or make a change to the file and save it. This worked for me.
If you see an error about AndroidManifest.xml, or some problems
related to an Android zip file, right click on the project and select
Android Tools > Fix Project Properties. (The project is looking in the
wrong location for the library file, this will fix it for you.)
from: http://developer.android.com/resources/tutorials/notepad/notepad-ex1.html
The way you are importing the Android project into Eclipse is wrong. The Correct way of doing is File -> New Android Project. In the Contents Tab in "New Android Project", select "Create project from existing source" and choose the Build Target. That should fix your problem.
It appears that this error is produced because Eclipse thinks the default location for new Android projects is the Android SDK path. Even if the project location is changed, the error fails to be resolved, so the trick is to change the project location before Eclipse is aware of the condition generating the error.
To circumvent this quirk I imported the old project with the following steps:
File -> New -> Android Project
Un-check 'Use default location' and browse to project root directory.
Click 'Create project from existing source'
It's important to do step (2) before (3) otherwise the error persists and prevents running the project.
I had the same problem, all of the above did not work. I cleaned the project and it worked.
Instead of using File ---> New Android Project --> "Create project from existing sources", which will result in the error your are seeing, choose "Create project from existing sample" and choose it from the drop down. This will work.
Experienced JAVA developers tend to go with the first option which is normally there and works for classic Eclipse projects. But this is not your typical project and I bet the Google developers put this special case in the wizard to accommodate the differences.
I had the same problem. I was trying to compile the JakeWharton view page sample, so I checked out the GIT in a directory in a different folder then the workspace which caused the problem.
Eclipse was maintaining 2 folders:
1. A new workspace folder was made under the workspace directory, which eclipse checks for libraries and others source code including the AndroidManifest.xml file
2. The existing folder which was not under the Root workspace
To fix the problem after importing I had to manually move the files in the new workspace folder created by eclipse.
I met this problem when using Facebook SDK, now I solve it by doing this:
Close the project;
Copy "AndroidManifest.xml" file to the project's root path;
Open the project and refresh it, it's Done!
this worked for me by the way:
I changed the project name to the exact name of the project that I am importing.
Eclipse seems somewhat fragile in its naming conventions. One of the causes for this error is a difference between the project name and the folder name in the workspace. I imported a zip file for a project named "HelloDialogs" into a workspace folder named "HelloDialog". This caused the "AndroidManifest.xml file missing" error. Once I renamed the folder correctly, everything worked fine.
Because of the multiple different answers here, I thouhgt I'd add yet another one that worked for me, as I had exactly the same issue when first working with Phonegap android dev tools.
So I found (as mentioned by Gintautas in comments to the accepted answer), that I had to create a new project using the phonegap 'create' script, then when importing the project into eclipse. the only way to get this to work successfully was if the project was originally created in some temp folder somewhere other than the place I actually want to work with it.
So I created a project in windows like this in a cmd window...
c:\phonegap\phonegap-2.6.0\lib\android\bin>create.bat c:\temp\android_boilerplates\test app.test test
Then I imported the project in eclipse like this...
File > New > Project
Within the new project wizard select: "Android Project from Existing Code"
Click "Next"
Now navigate to the temp location of your project and set that to the root directory, check the project you want and check "Copy projects into workspace" as the example below...
Click "Finish"
And that's it, Eclipse should copy all your project files into your workspace and there shouldn't be any errors in your project (fingers crossed).
Your project should look something like this...
Hope that helps, it took me an age to work out why Eclipse didn't like creating a new project from existing code when the new project was being setup in the same place as the existing code. This isn't a problem for other languages I've used, so it was a little weird, but understandable as Eclipse (I'm guessing) seems to want to overwrite certain files.
Eclipse randomly decided to make another folder instead of the one that i had specified, but doesnt have any resources or data or layout etc in it..
it has some conflicts i guess..
anyway, a noob approach to this was, copying the original file to some other location(i put it to desktop)..
now create new project-create existing project, select this one from desktop, n VOILA.. its all fine.. :D
I am a little late to this game but I caused this same problem by generating the initial application into the exact location I was going to work on it. That is to say I put it directly into my current workspace. I then did File, Import, Existing Android Code Into Workspace. The import process blanked out my android.xml file.
I tried above solutions and had no joy. I then generated the initial application into a temp directory and imported from there. This worked for me.
The only way to import a project into eclipse workspace is to create an empty project and then drag and drop all the folders and files into this project. Why is this so is beyond me.
The answer from Raunak is wrong.
I found a .classpath file in the root directory of my Android project. I opened it and updated the file paths in it, and it seemed to fix the problem for me.
I had the problem when I tried to update an old project with recent code from the SVN. I had the Manifest.xml exported to my local file system as backup and deleted it. I've then reverted my complete project to the most recent version from the SVN and then it worked :)
This is what I had to do to get this to work. Fortunately I had backups of earlier "project".
1) Import the project as usual.
2) If the errors with empty xml etc. comes up, close the project.
3) Go to the original project if you have backup.
4) Copy all of the projects root files and directories and paste it over where Eclipse expects the projects root directories and files to be.
5) Open the project and refresh. Make "Clean" if necessary and you're done!
Always make backups because Eclipse f--kups! I learned this the hard way when suddenly my Android project refused to work because of empty manifest-file.
Sometimes if you automatically fix imports in MainActivity IDE imports android.R class instead of one that will be generated for the project. Remove the import and recompile.
when importing project from another workspace add existing project in workspace. and tick to the copy projects in workspace.then check the api level and supporting library from project.properties files.then rebuilt project and clean it.. it is works for me.
2017 Solution: Much Easier and tested solution is to remove your application folder from elipse project only then Import it again and the problem will be fixed immediately!
My apologies if this is a stupid newbie question...
I'm using Eclipse (Helios release) and have the Android SDK all configured as per the developer.android.com recommendations. I can create and run new projects without any problem but I can't import archived project code samples (found on the web etc.) using Import > Existing Projects Into Workspace.
Importing a zip creates a project but it doesn't create it as an Android project and the console displays the error: "Project has no default.properties file! Edit the project properties to set one."
I've tried going into the project Properties but as soon as I click on 'Android' in the properties tree a pop-up appears saying "Could Not Accept Changes: The currently displayed page contains invalid values"
See: http://screencast.com/t/ZmY3ZWQ4
But if I do this on one of my own projects I have no such error, and I'm able to change things such as the Android Platform/API level. I'm also able to archive my own projects (using export) and import them again without any problems... nut not other people's archives! Am I being really stupid?
Any help would be really appreciated!
All the baseline default.properties needs is a line like:
target=android-8
You can most likely copy another projects' default.properties into this project. A (not-so-)quick restart of Eclipse, a rebuilding of the workspace, and you're off to the races.
It's really lame that this is needed -- it should happen as part of the import process, I would think.
just change your
project.properties file to default.properties
and restart your eclipse
it's done..
Right click on the project in navigator window, go to android tools and click on fix project properties. It might work, as it did for me ;-)
You can look at this section, it works for me:
Project has no default.properties file!
If you want to change the library of your project, do that :
- right click on the project name
- Build Path
- Configure build path
- click Android on the left, and select the library you need.
I had the same problem.
What you are trying is little difficult.Just unzip the files ,copy res and src folders
to ur existing project.The problem is the files starting with "." which have settings for their android and eclipse.
So you need to modify all that,so simply create new project or to ur existing one copy res, src and AndroidManifest.xml file.
It worked for me .
In the project right click Android Tools -> Fix Project Properties