Hi, So trying to get eclipse working and failing miserably to get the Android thing working. I've looked at some similar thread and followed some links but much of it is in a foreign language to me. which is damn frustrating as the buzztouch bit seems fairly straight forward. I got the sdk manager and the adv manager visible in eclipse window. But trying to set up the android preferences it says no targets installed when I point it to the relevent folder (hopefully this make sense and I'm heading in the right direction) I load up the SDK manager and am given a whoop of things to install (Android 4.0.3, Android 4.0 etc) which do I actually install and do I need to install, every sub item eg dcumentation, SDK platform Google API's etc) Or do I maybe I dont actually need to do any of this and there is another problem??? Many thanks Rob

I have a how to that should help. And video. www.Myskylla.com Go to guide Go to installing eclipse Fred

thanks fred I've seen your site and much of it is a bit dutch for this luddite (and the link to the video doesn't work for me.) Whilst I was waiting I read through Mark's tutorial and done everything bar the keystores thing. I've got the following now installed: Android SDK tool rev 19 Android SDK Platform-tools Rev 11 Android2.2(API8) rev 8 (6 items) Android 1.6 (API4)(2 items) (all these show up in the Android preferences) Also installed on SDK is the Google USB Driver - no idea what that is for.. Installed Software in Eclipse : Eclipse IDE for Java EE Developers Android DDMS Android Development tools Android Hierarchy Viewer Android Traceview (when I check for updates I get a problem occured message: No repository found at C:/Users/..... No idea what a repository is but it is looking at the wrong location as I moved the android folder to the root C:/ directory Just checked the Eclipse installation configuration error log and this also appears 17 times When I did a search for 'error' in the log there was only the one entry: !ENTRY org.eclipse.equinox.p2.engine 4 4 2012-05-19 12:42:26.792 !MESSAGE An error occurred while collecting items to be installed !SUBENTRY 1 org.eclipse.equinox.p2.engine 4 0 2012-05-19 12:42:26.792 !MESSAGE session context was:(profile=epp.package.jee, phase=org.eclipse.equinox.internal.p2.engine.phases.Collect, operand=, action=). !SUBENTRY 1 org.eclipse.equinox.p2.transport.ecf 4 1002 2012-05-19 12:42:26.792 !MESSAGE Unable to read repository at https://dl-ssl.google.com/android/eclipse/features/com.android.ide.eclipse.ddms_18.0.0.v201203301601-306762.jar. !STACK 0 Does this mean anything to anyone and is it relevant? The AVD works fine by the way so I got that bit right !!!

You're using the wrong API. FRED

ok thanks just one question.... What is API

I wrote a guide about that and a how to. The Android Process Fred

Apologies That really doesn't mean a lot to me can you please elucidate I have the Google APIs from the Android 2.2 & 1.6 installed as well

Send pick of your eclipse project and ask manager. Read The Android Process in my guide. Fred

Apologies again I think after reading the android process that I have misled you some where along the way! I'm still having installation problems where the Android Projects is not visible in Eclipse when trying to create a new project.

Then read Installing Eclipse and read the verification part. Also watch the video. Fred

hmmm!!! ok I got it working but not entirely sure how. reinstalled both android and Eclipse and it still wasnt showing the andriod projects. out of frustration I tried to open a project anyway using Other, Android and opened a project. I realised I hadnt downloaded the latest source code that I've been playing with whilst waiting for varous installations to happen so did that again when I tried to open it again the Android Projects was there! Bizarre! I read your stuff and couldn't see anything I hadn't done previously though am still at a loss trying to understand some of the terminology and what it actually does - but then again I am a complete novice so thanks for your patience

I read your stuff and couldn't see anything I hadn't done previously though am still at a loss trying to understand some of the terminology and what it actually does This is the biggest problem. I find the second or third time things magically work because we are now familiar with the terminology and make the correct choice. Fred

Hey @RobK, Welcome to buzztouch! Is everything going OK now? If not, drop me a line: MrkFleming at gmail dot com And we can work through any issues you may be having in as non-technical way as possible! I'm even willing to do a TeamViewer session with you and show how to get things going! Mark