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

this helped me so you can try too:

Go to your Workspace root/.metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.jdt.core/ and remove .org.eclipse.jdt.core.external.folders folder

it contains .project file with links to external folders which takes too long to refresh