android-support-v7-appcompat library project won't work

pawelo picture pawelo · Nov 7, 2013 · Viewed 32.8k times · Source

I am trying to add Support Library v7 to my clean android project as support library (with resources). I followed every instruction here: http://developer.android.com/tools/support-library/setup.html#download and android.support.v7.* package is not visible in my main project.

Here is library reference in main project:

Library reference in main project

Support library project tree:

library project tree

Support library project build path: library prject build path

And finally, my main project tree

main project tree

I don't see any errors in Problems tab, app compiles and runs normally but i cannot import android.support.v7 package which apparently isn't in build path in main project. I went through instruction twice in clean projects/workspace. I cleaned project, restarted Eclipse and nothing... All resources from library project are unreachable too.

Thanks in advance :)

Answer

Raghunandan picture Raghunandan · Nov 7, 2013

Copy the library project to the folder where your android project is.

Select File > Import.

Select Existing Android Code Into Workspace and click Next.

Browse and import the same to eclipse

Once the library project is imported you can refer the same in your android project.

This is similar to setting up google play services in eclipse described here. Check the 4th step

http://developer.android.com/google/play-services/setup.html