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Nick
Nick

Reputation: 2907

Android application problems in Eclipse

I'm a .NET developer but I like JAVA so in my free time I play around with that. I don't normally use Eclipse but I installed the ADT eclipse plugin and Andriod SDK and I started learning and I made a new project with a TableLayout and it kinda looks good, and it runs ok on the emulator.

However... there a few things that drive me absolutely catatonic and perhaps I am doing something wrong so please help me out. Firstly, if I change the main.xml file in whatever way, even by adding what is supposedly a correct parameter, it will start freaking out and will generate an error that just says "error" without specifying what that is, it will then generate a main.out.xml and then report an error that the main.out.xml is empty. It later won't let me delete that and will start generating a main.out.out.xml and so forth, even after I correct that original xml that caused the error.

The only way to get things going is to delete the bin folder, restart Eclipse, delete all the out xml files and then sometimes it will run the application or some other times it will start generating those 'out' files again and the loop goes on.

That way it takes hours to run a simple app even one without errors that used to run before. Surely that was NOT how they intended it to work, is it?? Also.. there is no "Rebuild" button that will flush all files out automatically, or is it hidden somewhere? I am tired of manually deleting those automatically generated files and the build folder and all those out.xml files.

Also, while I'm at it, I also want to point out that the designer view sometimes disappears and there is nothing on earth that will bring it back, the only way is to create a new project and copy the main.xml to it and then it shows up again. Another bug?

I have the latest eclipse version: Version: Indigo Service Release 2 Build id: 20120216-1857

If you have any clues how to get this to work, I will appreciate it! Many thanks in advance

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1569

Answers (1)

E-Riz
E-Riz

Reputation: 32914

When you click the Run button with an XML file selected, Eclipse is running an XSL Transformation on that XML and producing the .out.xml file as the result. This is a feature of the Eclipse Web Tools feature, which you'll have if you installed the Eclipse for Java EE Developers package (it may be included in other packages, too).

As others have said above in the comments, to run your Android app, select the Project, right-click, and choose Run As > Android App. Once you've done that once, it will create a Launch Configuration that you can launch from the Run or Debug toolbar buttons (pressing the small down-arrow on the Run or Debug buttons brings up a list of Launch Configurations that you can select from, as well as an option to manage them).

There is a Preference that will make Eclipse always launch the last thing you ran or debugged, instead of trying to be smart about what is currently selected. Open the Preferences and navigate to Run/Debug > Launching; there you'll find the option under Launch Operation at the bottom of the window.

Upvotes: 4

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