Eclipse Indigo Android ADT - install OK, no “Android” option in Preferences and New Project

Question

I have Eclipse (Indigo Service Release 1, Build id: 20110916-0149) running on Win XP.

I\'ve added https://dl-ssl.google.com/android/eclipse/ and installed 4 plugins

Answer 1

I just had the same problem on windows 7 running Indigo. I eventually discovered that I had accidentally not run Eclipse as an administrator when I installed the ADT plugin. I solved the issue by uninstalling the ADT plugin, and then re-installing the ADT plugin when running Eclipse as an administrator. Once I did that Eclipse restarted and immediately prompted me for the location of my android SDK.

As far as steps go:

1. Run Eclipse as Administrator
   
2. Go to Help > About Eclipse SDK > Installation Details
   
3. Select Android DDMS, Android Development Tools, Android Hierarchy Viewer, and Android Traceview
   
4. Click Uninstall and click through the dialogs
   
5. Restart Eclipse at the prompt
   
6. Close Eclipse and re-run it as an administrator (not sure if this was necessary but I wanted be sure Eclipse had full permissions when I reinstalled the ADT Plugin)
   
7. Re-install the ADT plugin the way you did before.
   
8. Restart Eclipse at the prompt.