I have recently installed Fedora 16 and I am trying to get ADT up and running from scratch on it. It’s a 64bit system. I have installed AVD’s under Ubuntu about 5 times (Hardy Heron through Lucid Lynx). I often ran into trouble, but this problem does not want to go away and I’m about 3 days into ripping my hair out. If someone here can’t help me fix this, I’m going back to Ubuntu.
I followed all of the instructions at this link:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/HOWTO_Setup_Android_Development
Although I can run an AVD (from the command line, with the method used inside that tut) and all of the demos apps work great inside it…
If you go to:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/HOWTO_Setup_Android_Development#Hello_Fedora
and just a few more lines down, you will see where I get hung up.
THIS IS MY PRIMARY PROBLEM:
I cannot start a new android project because it is not available under File/New/Project where it is supposed to be.
I have tried uninstalling via command line
yum remove eclipse-*
I have tried removing through “add/remove programs” under Activities. I’ve removed just the Eclipse-Platfom selection and I’ve tried removing absolutely everything installed with Eclipse in it’s name. I’ve re-installed with yum and with the Add/Remove Programs tools (yes I know it’s just a front end). I have double scoured over every step to make sure I spelled things right.
The ONLY thing I can think of is that maybe I am not changing the PATH variables correctly. This is what I entered:
PATH=$PATH:$HOME/ultrajones/SDK:$HOME/ultrajones/SDK/tools
export PATH
# For SDK version r_08 and higher, also add this for adb:
PATH=$PATH:$HOME/ultrajones/SDK/platform-tools
export PATH
Obviously, ultrajones is my username, but I’ve never had “formal” training with make files and PATHs and all that stuff so I wouldn’t know a good one from a bad one – I just fill in the blanks.
How can I get Android to appear as a selection under new projects in Eclipse?
I hate to throw out an entire operating system based on this problem, but that is where I am at right now.
A couple weeks ago I found the answer to my own question. I posted the solution on my blog. I finally remembered to come back and answer my question. The entry in this link describes the entire process of installing the ADT in Eclipse 3.7.1 on Fedora 16
My blog post about installing Android Dev Tools in Fedora.