I want to see Android SDK source code in order to understand how it works.
How can I attach Android SDK sources in eclipse?
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I want to see Android SDK source code in order to understand how it works.
How can I attach Android SDK sources in eclipse?
For newer releases
This is the only way to do it for the newer releases of the SDK:
http://source.android.com/source/downloading.html
It can take a little bit, but once you get it set up, it is easy to repeat for later releases. You will notice too that it helps solve the problem of the autocomplete lagging in Eclipse as well! Well worth it in and of itself…
For older releases
You need to download some source files specific to which Android API version you are working with.
The URL is
And you have to replace with one of these:
so the URL becomes for example:
for froyo, or:
How to fix the autocomplete lagging problem once and for all
After you have downloaded the file, (which comes as .tar.gz by the way), you have to open the archive, and copy the contents of the base directory, into your
directory. (Create the sources directory if it does not exist)
When you now start Eclipse, you should have autocompletion working fine again!