Android eclipse editor: Unable to edit properties

Question

I\'m facing a strange and productivity destroying problem since this morning. Properties with no pre filled attributed can\'t be edited trough the properties editor. (Margin

Answer 1

Solve your problem by closing of perpective (in windows tab of eclips)

Answer 2

Same problem with ADT v22.3.0-887826

Fixed after rechange current API verion in top of XML editor (Green robot spinner). I choosed API 18 instead 19. All is work.

Answer 3

Which version of eclipse are your using? Did you try the latest version or perhaps updating adt?

Answer 4

This is a limitation in the new property sheet introduced in ADT 20.

We've improved it in ADT 21, and if you download Preview 4 (released yesterday) you can see the new behavior. Here's the fix: https://android-review.googlesource.com/#/c/42238/

Here's ADT 21 preview: http://tools.android.com/download/adt-21-preview

-- Tor

Answer 5

There is also a bug report at http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=33906&q=properties%20editor&colspec=ID%20Type%20Status%20Owner%20Summary%20Stars but no reponse there yet.

Answer 6

I've just had the same issue with ADT 22.3 in Eclipse on OS X Mavericks.

Doesn't seem to be related to OS version, just change open the view in the layout editor and change the Android version (next to the green Android robot icon in the toolbar) to a lower version and it should re-render the layout for a lower API Level and you should find it works fine.

If it still doesn't work, try an even older version and retry.