Being someone that has used Microsoft products like Visual Basic 3.0 to multiple versions of VS.NET, I must say I have gained new respect for these tools and Microsoft after re using Eclipse and ADT for the past few days….yes I have decided to write a new Android app…more on that later though !!!
As i was developing code and getting frustrated with Java process bloating and functions like Emulator refusing to send mock locations over, i decided to click on Window->Android SDK Manager hoping there would be new updates to fix that. After getting a bunch of exceptions as i had other windows open / processes in use and messages like cannot rename directories i had thought i had everything working and it did work for a bit.
Then a few hours ago i couldn’t add any new Android activity. So i decided to restart Eclipse and now got an error “please update adt to the latest version”. So i did what i got from googling…Help->Install New Software. Did that and got another error around “installing software has encountered a problem”…Another google later i found that i had to change the work with site under Install New Software from http://dl-ssl.google.com/android/eclipse/ to https://dl-ssl.google.com/android/eclipse/. Once that was done i was able to update ADT and now i can open Eclipse and yes i can add a new activity…so all is well now !!!
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