This maybe a continuation from 2 of my previous question, or maybe it’s a completely unconnected problem.
Previous questions were
Questions on Notepad Tutorial:
Can't read … AndroidManifest.xml – while attempting Android Notepad Tutorial – Exercise 1
The tutorial asked you to select “Create project from existing source”. My 1st original question was where to copy the template (original source) to and from the answers I received, It looks like I should copy the directory-structure/source under the C:/Development/Eclipse/ directory, so it would look like this
_ C:/Development/Eclipse/Notepadv1/… _
I did that, and then tried to continue the tutorial, but when I got to the part that says to select “Create project from existing source”, I received a pair of errors
C:\Andriod\Andriod-SDK-Windows\AndroidManifest.xml: java.io.FileNotFoundException: C:\Andriod\Andriod-SDK-
(Same error prints twice in the Console & WorkSpaceLog
So I posted a second question about the FileNotFoundException:, and received an answer saying to ignore the message, happens all the time… so I deiced to plow forward again. Now I have 2 problem. One of the problems may well be of my own doing, trying to run threw this tutorial dozens of times, and attempting to back out my changes over and over again.
Problem # 1:
I once again start to create the Notepadv1 project using “Create Project from Existing Source” (The cant-read-androidmanifest-xml error still appears), but as suggested I just ignore it. I next select “Android 1.5/Platform 1.5 as the Build Target, BUT the field where you enter the Min SDK Version is grayed out, and you can’t enter the number 3 there.. The tutorial says to put the number there, but it seems to become grayed out at the same time I select “Create Project from Existing Source” and get the “cant-read-androidmanifest-xml” error.
Problem # 2:
If I click on [Next] twice, or [Finish] once, I get a pop up box with the message “Invalid project description” – – “Reason: Invalid project description”
[Details>>] “Invalid project description.
C:\Development\Eclipse\Notepadv1 overlaps the location of another project: ‘Notepadv1’
“.
This did not originally happen. There is no mention of the “Notepadv1” in the Package Explorer or Navigator windows, so I can’t find any way to remove it, and I have run Clean Projects, exited eclipse and rebooted the machine a few time… in a few different ways.
Any suggestions? Joe
P.S. I have not yet accept any of the answers to my last question, because the juries still out. I’m not yet sure they were correct. I’ll will make sure I go back and accept an answers, once I figure out what the correct answer is – Joe
Problem 1 is because the androidmanifest.xml is missing.
Problem 2 Notepadv1 already exists in your workspace.
If I were you I would change your workspace to your Documents/My Documents or equivilant folder depending on your OS. You can do that under File->Switch Workspace->Other. Then delete what you have under the Eclipse directory. It could get messy if you update Eclipse or have multiple versions of Eclipse.
Where is this Notepad project? Is is part of the SDK? If it is I would use File->Import to copy over to your workspace rather than mess with the SDK copy. That is probably why the manifest is missing.
If you would like more help let me know.
PS. You will probably want to reinstall the SDK if the Notepad manifest is missing.
EDIT:
@Joe. I couldn’t say why other tutorials worked and others didn’t for definite but using the SDK as a workspace is definitely going to end up being programmatic when you are learning. My SDK is separate from my workspace. So, in a brief summary, I would keep the SDK, the Eclipse source and your project workspace in entirely different locations. And we can start from there if you want more help.