How to avoid “Refreshing external Folders” in Android development in Eclipse

Question

I am having this annoying problem which takes 10-20 seconds and sometimes more every time my android project is refreshed or rebuilt.

Answer 1

Instead of attaching a source folder to the .jar file, you should zip the source folder and attach the zipped file to the .jar.

See this answer for more info https://stackoverflow.com/a/9699242/637754