ADT will not allow creation of Android Activity

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NewShelbyWoo picture NewShelbyWoo · Mar 5, 2014 · Viewed 36.5k times · Source

I installed the ADT bundle from http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html yesterday, and I was following a basic Hello World tutorial. I created a new Android Application Project with a Blank Activity named MainActivity. The resulting project has an empty src folder and empty res\layout folder. There is a R.java file in the gen folder but it has no reference to MainActivity. This is what the SDK manager says I have installed

  • Android SDK Tools v 22.6
  • Android SDK Platform-tools v 19.0.1
  • Android SDK Build-tools v 19
  • SDK Platform v 3
  • ARM EABI v7a System Image v 2
  • Android Support Library v 19.0.1
  • Google USB Driver v 9

I also tried manually creating an activity by right clicking the src folder and going to Android Activity, but when I hit Finish on the creation wizard, nothing happens. Does anyone have any clues as to what's going on? Did I miss a key component to install or something?

Answer

Akshay picture Akshay · Mar 8, 2014

If you updated to Android SDK Tools version 22.6, you are required to Update DDMS Tools and Plugins.

Go to "Help Menu Bar" -> "Install New software" and install (this will update it) url: https://dl-ssl.google.com/android/eclipse/

Also update "Developer Tools" and "NDK Plugins" to latest Version. This steps is useful for me and worked also.

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