Skip Eclipse validation of build.xml

Question

I\'ve followed the steps given in the Android Developer Blog to generate a build.xml for building releases for an Android Application. I need to do a custom compiling so I have

Answer 1

I have figured out a much better solution to the problem of eclipse not finding build targets from the imported/included projects. First of all, upgrade to the r14 sdk. Revision 14 uses only a build.xml file from the ${sdk.dir}/tools/ant directory

At the bottom of the build.xml file within your own project, you'll see an import statement that looks like this:

Change this statement to

Then from your project, you can reference those target with

Also note that now they have pre-compile/pre-build tasks that will be called before compiling. (checkout the full build.xml to see exactly when they are called). You can use these as hooks to do some work before compiling without overriding the original tasks.