Question

I have recently installed the most recent Android Plugin for Eclipse on the most recent Eclipse version. The problem is that the syntax proposals are now very, very slow. I have to switch them off.

To be precise. If I press “.” after an Android class instance, it takes several seconds, before the proposals for the methods appear, and I can continue typing. After I type a letter, it takes again seconds before I can continue.

Looks like the program is download something from a very slow server. This problem does not exist with Java core classes, and it did also not exist in the previous version I was using.

Is there anything I can do about that?

Rene

Answer 1

I had the pauses on auto-complete too, and there’s an existing question about it. For me, the solution was to switch to Eclipse 3.5 instead of 3.6; this is advised on the Android Developers website (though it’s not a very prominent message!):

Caution: There are known issues with the ADT plugin running with Eclipse 3.6. Please stay on 3.5 until further notice.

Others have had luck modifying eclipse.ini settings to force Java 1.6 and increase the amount of memory used, though this was for combating general slowness.