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Android Build a Self-Destructing Message Android App Starting the App Setting Up the Project

Posted by brunopaiva
brunopaiva
14,408 Points

Main Activity isn't created

I have followed all the steps in the video "Setting Up the Project" in "Build a Self-Destructing Message" but after clicking on "Finish" all files are created except Main Activity. Why is that?

Also, when i select the template for main activity it shows one more field than what is shown on the video (Fragment Layout Name) and the template's options are named diferently, i selected the one that had a resembling ilustration (Action Bar Tabs (with ViewPager)).

4 Answers

Joey Barter
Joey Barter
1,261 Points
Joey Barter
Joey Barter
1,261 Points

By any chance, is your res/layout/activity_main.xml missing too? It seems others are having this issue as well; http://stackoverflow.com/questions/22219392/eclipse-doesnt-create-main-activity-and-layout/22350689#22350689

My fix was to re-install eclipse...The issue came back again, so I reinstalled again.

brunopaiva
brunopaiva
14,408 Points
brunopaiva
brunopaiva
14,408 Points

i did the "Update Eclipe plugin" like they said on that stackoverflow thread and it worked like a charm!

Meanwhile i was using Android Studio in order to progress a bit more on the tutorials but it had some diferences when compared to the videos, so it's great that i can return to Eclipse.

Thanks a lot Joey!

William Dahl
William Dahl
7,829 Points
William Dahl
William Dahl
7,829 Points

I am having this issue today as well.

It seemed to start happening after I updated the developer tools as instructed in the "Setting up the project" course (for "Build a Self-Destructing Message").

I tried looking at the stack overflow solution, except that is what I did when the problem started. If I do it again it just says it is already up to date.

I am going to try reinstalling eclipse as per Joey's answer.

William Dahl
William Dahl
7,829 Points
William Dahl
William Dahl
7,829 Points

I got eclipse to behave normally again. However it seems I basically had to revert to the bundle I downloaded days ago, and specifically undo the updates I did this morning while following the tutorial.

Any ideas as to what caused this behaviour? I believe I followed the steps just as Ben did in the video. Is it possible there is an issue with the latest Eclipse updates at the time I updated ?