James Becwar

Bug with Eclipse and SDK Tools 8.

If your like me you already had the Android SDK Tools 7 pack installed.  Today Gingerbread was released (2.3) and a new version of the android SDK tools, version 8.  After installing the sdk tools version 8 and downloading 2.3 I couldn’t get eclipse to work with any android projects, it kept complaining that the location of the sdk wasn’t set in the prefrences.  If I tried to setup the location of the sdk, eclipse would complain that the toolsadb.exe file couldn’t be found.

Long story short, I still had the eclipse addon for SDK tools 7 installed.  To update to version 8 all you need to do is go to help, check for updates in eclipse.  After that everything should work fine.

-James

Quick update on how to get started on android

I saw a new book on Amazon called Learn Java for Android Development.  It claims to to teach you java while learning the Android SDK.  Might be a good place to start. But, I haven’t read the book and there isn’t a preview, so I’m not sure how good it really is.

-James

Visual layout editor for Android!

I found a really cool app called DroidDraw that lets you grafficly layout a layout xml file.  Much easier to use then the built in eclipse editor!

-James