ADT plugin and Eclipse 3.5

Question

I installed ADT plugin to Eclipse 3.5. But at Window->Preferences Android node is not shown.

Answer 1

How did you install android?

Did you use the p2 'Install new software' as in:

like this tutorial?

See also this manual page, where you will see the update site address is the same, but the process depends on your eclipse version (for eclipse Galileo 3.5.x, the p2 mechanism is recommended)

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A full reinstall of eclipse is better when in doubt (you do not even need to touch to your previous install: just unzip a new eclipse.zip somewhere): you can even reference your previous workspace (and plugins, if you have uncompressed them in a dedicated directory).
For those references, see my eclipse.ini for more.
(Note: there is no real full installation of eclipse, except for removing its directory)

Answer 2

Hallelujah. I removed ADT plugin, removed eclipse folder. Also I removed all mentions of eclipse from file system (several folders from user folder). Installed again. And it began work.

Answer 3

If you have the Subclipse plug-in also installed, then that could be keeping the ADT plug-in from working. They just don't seem to play well together. I created a second Eclipse installation for my Android work with ADT but without Subclipse. I use the other one for projects using Subclipse but not Android. Not ideal but good enough for the moment.

Answer 4

I encountered the same problem and was able to resolve it by simply removing the eclipse and android sub-folders from beneath my C:\user folder.

I was able to leave the main Eclipse folder alone, but I did need to install the Android plugin again.

Answer 5

Hello,

I am having the same problem.

I uninstalled the ADT by mistake. The ADT was functioning correctly before this point of time.

Now when I try to install it again, it installs correctly but it doesn't load up in Eclipse. What I mean is that I can see the ADT has been installed when I check the installed plug-ins section; but I cannot see the Android section under Preferences and neither can I see the Android SDK and AVD Manager button/option under Windows.

I am currently using Eclipse 3.5.2 on a Windows 7 x64 system and I do have Subclipse installed as well.

Please advice.

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Ok. So I got it working by removing Eclipse completely (even the folder under Users). Then while installing everything again, I did not install the Subclipse plug-in and everything is working as it should. I already have a seperate software for managing subversion repositories, so this setup works for me.

Answer 6

Ok, I solved this slightly differently.

I am running Eclipse 3.5 under Windows 7 x64. I used the zipped version of Eclipse and originally decompressed it to "c:\program files\eclipse"

I found the only way I could get the ADT plug-in to work was to move the eclipse folder to a folder location with no spaces eg c:\eclipse and then run it as an administrator.

After that I just re-installed the ADT plug-in and it works!