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Android

Posted by Paul Bedford
Paul Bedford
Courses Plus Student 521 Points

Help! Eclipse not creating new Android Application correctly.

Hey Guys, I have just updated my SDK and installed new updates for Eclipse, now whenever I start a project I get "R cannot be resolved - Android error".

Googling this has found it to be a common eclipse error where R.Java doesn't get created.

Any one have any ideas why this might happen or better yet, any steps to fix it? Nothing I have tried so far has helped.

Thanks!

2 Answers

Ben Jakuben
STAFF
Ben Jakuben
Treehouse Teacher
Ben Jakuben
Ben Jakuben
Treehouse Teacher

I don't know why exactly this happens - maybe an error in one of the files in your res directory or maybe something became corrupted in Eclipse. You can try cleaning and rebuilding your project, restarting Eclipse, looking for a bad import statement of android.R, or one of these solutions in this question on StackOverflow.

Hope this helps!

Paul Bedford
PLUS
Paul Bedford
Courses Plus Student 521 Points
Paul Bedford
Paul Bedford
Courses Plus Student 521 Points

Hey Ben, thanks for the response, Yeah I have tried everything. It seems a bit of a phantom error, I have re-downloaded the eclipse pack now and it seems ok.

Thanks again!