Fail to find annotations.jar after updating to ADT 23

Question

So, seeing that the new Android L is out, I said I should give it a try. I installed the new ADT update from SDK tools and then from the updates. After Eclipse restart, I ge

Answer 1

Tomorrow I had the same problem after the update to ADT 23.

The problem is related to the annotations.

There are two libraries with annotations in the Android SDK:

android-sdk/extras/android/support/annotations/android-support-annotations.jar

this package contains:

• AnimRes
• AnimatorRes
• AnyRes
• ArrayRes
• AttrRes
• BoolRes
• ColorRes
• DimenRes
• DrawableRes
• FractionRes
• IdRes
• IntDef
• IntegerRes
• InterpolatorRes
• LayoutRes
• MenuRes
• NonNull
• Nullable
• PluralsRes
• RawRes
• StringDef
• StringRes
• StyleRes
• StyleableRes
• XmlRes

and

android-sdk/tools/support/annotations.jar

that...with the new ADT update, for some reason disappeared.

This package contains the two annotations (probably the most used :-)):

• SupportLint
• TargetApi

Without them, if your code (or dependencies use them) Eclipse will complain.

To fix this problem, we need the previous annotation.jar.

So I downloaded the file from the link suggested by @aarati:

http://central.maven.org/maven2/com/google/android/annotations/4.1.1.4/annotations-4.1.1.4.jar

Renamed it in annotation.jar and moved to: android-sdk/tools/support/

Restarting Eclipse everything will be fine.