Android: "Edit Source Lookup Path...".

Question

I am developing on a Mac with Eclipse and have the skeleton for an app that implements the standard framework callbacks (onCreate, onDestroy, onPause, etc..). When I set breakpoints in the callbacks the debugger stops and displays a tab that says "ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread $ActivityRecord,Intent)line:2477" and in the tab page body there is some red text that says "Source not found" and a button that says "Edit Source Lookup Path...".

I have tried adding several paths via "Edit Source Lookup Path..." but can't see to find the one Eclipse is looking for.

Can anyone point me in the right direction?

Answer 1

It sounds like your program has stopped inside Android code. Often these internal errors (null pointers etc) are caused by a mistake in your code, but the error reporting isn't there, instead you get an internal crash.

However it can help a lot sometimes to view the Android source code. This can be done fairly easily.

See this:

http://android.opensourceror.org/2010/01/18/android-source/