July 10, 2014

Appcompat errors in Eclipse - New Android Application


Few days ago I encountered an error while trying to start a 'New Android Application project' in Eclipse Kepler. It runs smoothly before (few months ago). it maybe caused by few updates made previously - I don't know which one.

Creating New Android Application.

Erros on Appcompat and my New Project - Mytest.

Suddenly Appcompat was generated automatically - WTF is Appcompat? Who cares - I don't - at least at this time. The MAJOR problem is my 'Hello world' project can't run anymore reporting 2 error messages:
  1. Project 'appcompat_v7' is missing required source folder: 'gen'
  2. The container 'Android Dependencies' references non existing library 'D:\xxx\EclipseWorkspace\appcompat_v7\bin\appcompat_v7.jar'
 To fix this.. just right click on Appcompat project and build it..

Build Appcompat Project
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Output Generated after Build.

YES. As simple as that. Now I can build and run my New Project - 'Mytest' successfully! Yeay!

Mytest runs on AVD.

Does it work for you? Please leave a comment. Thanks.


6 comments:

Anonymous said...

Thank you for this post. I was having the same issues. This fixed it.

Anonymous said...

Didn't help. No "build" option. Tried to build a path - that file is missing :( Any suggestions?

Anonymous said...

Ohhhhhhhhhhh god.........thank u so mch.......................i was scratching my head for whole day..........this worked lik charm......and ur post is also excellent..

Anonymous said...

Thank you. I spent so much trying to fix this problem. But your solution did the magic.

Anonymous said...

I dont find any build project option when i right click on appcompat folder..Please help me.

khakisedigh said...

Do you want to fix simply.

Don't be so complex

Just when you create New Project it's enought to select minimum required SDK to version 7 no version 8 or other