Question

Suddenly my Android app is compiling with loads of errors in Eclipse. When I use Project-Clean the console shows it processing until ‘Writing symbols for class R’ then it pauses for around a minute and finishes with ‘Nothing to pre compile’ This behaviour follows adding several new strings to my strings.xml and replacing strings in the code with :-

getResources().getString(R.string.name of string);

Any ideas? Would it be safe to delete the R.java file to force it to rebuild perhaps?

Answer 1

When you use eclipse is very important after you change something in strings.xml to save that file and also rebuild !, if you have checked the option for build automatically than is enough just to CTRL+S if not you have to rebuild manually , cause your R.strings values are not jet updated