Eclipse Indigo Android ADT - install OK, no "Android" option in Preferences and New Project

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Pavel picture Pavel · Jan 1, 2012 · Viewed 21.7k times · Source

I have Eclipse (Indigo Service Release 1, Build id: 20110916-0149) running on Win XP.

I've added https://dl-ssl.google.com/android/eclipse/ and installed 4 plugins, including ADT, and restarted Eclipse. Installed software list shows Android plugins are installed.

But nothing appears in Preferences, and there are no Android-type project in New Projects.

Later I check Eclipse's directories and there were four *.jar archives with these Android plugins, and they weren't unzipped to corresponding directories (like other plugins). I unpacked them so directories same as *.jar names, and started Eclipse again, but nothing happens.

How can I work with ADT plugin in Eclipse?

Answer

Omn picture Omn · Mar 3, 2012

I just had the same problem on windows 7 running Indigo. I eventually discovered that I had accidentally not run Eclipse as an administrator when I installed the ADT plugin. I solved the issue by uninstalling the ADT plugin, and then re-installing the ADT plugin when running Eclipse as an administrator. Once I did that Eclipse restarted and immediately prompted me for the location of my android SDK.

As far as steps go:

  1. Run Eclipse as Administrator
  2. Go to Help > About Eclipse SDK > Installation Details
  3. Select Android DDMS, Android Development Tools, Android Hierarchy Viewer, and Android Traceview
  4. Click Uninstall and click through the dialogs
  5. Restart Eclipse at the prompt
  6. Close Eclipse and re-run it as an administrator (not sure if this was necessary but I wanted be sure Eclipse had full permissions when I reinstalled the ADT Plugin)
  7. Re-install the ADT plugin the way you did before.
  8. Restart Eclipse at the prompt.

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