Android:How to avoid XML verification failed error and Upgrading to 2.x SDK successfully?

Question

Hi,

I have setup for Android development with 1.5 SDK on Mac O.S X - Eclipse 3.5. I want to upgrade the SDK, so as i followed to choose Window->Android SDK and AVD Manager from Eclipse. But it throws error as follows:

XML verification failed for https://dl-ssl.google.com/android/repository/repository.xml. Error: cvc-elt.1: Cannot find the declaration of element 'sdk:sdk- repository'. Failed to fetch URL

I tried "http" instead of https, but still getting the same error. I don't know why such crap error comes. If i see Android website, http://developer.android.com/intl/zh-CN/sdk/index.html its confusing.

Could someone guide me easily to update Android SDK to 2.x or later without uninstalling my current setup environment.

Thanks. I appreciate your kind suggestions.

Answer 1

If you are using a very old version of the tools, you will need to download a newer starter package from http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html

The reason is that the schema of the repository XML file changed when we released rev 5, but only tools in revision 4 or higher can adapt to schema changes.

By the way once you download the new starter package you can replace the tools folder from your previous installation with the new one. That way you don't have to change PATH env var or any other setup you have.