Being new to Android developent I followed the simplest of tutorials, built a new android project, accepting all default settings (built it for kitkat). To my dismay I have
I had the same problem and I tried all of mentionded above advices and much more from, but no one helped me to solve my issue. My solution was creating a progect with minimum required SDK API 14: Android 4.0 (IceCreamSandwich). Doing this way Eclipse will not create appcompat_v7 project.
Also I found another, better, solution: