Android appcompat v7 error

Question

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

Answer 1

I solved it by downloading the file manually somewhere on the internet (be careful) and putting it into the needed \appcompat_v7\bin\ folder before creating a new Android project. After that, also my R.java file was generated successfully.

Honestly, no other way seemed to fix it. Could not obtain the file via the SDK manager.