I am very new to Eclipse (Galileo, Eclipse IDE for Java Developers) and working on my first Android app, but have used SVN on many other kinds of projects and development. L
You should be able to do it like you tried. Make sure you have the Android Development Tools (android eclipse plugin) installed along with the android SDK and make sure you set up ADT before you open the project.
Not checking in the bin directory makes sense to me, but I do check in the gen folder and don't have any problems.
Here is what I do to open a project from SVN if the source is already on the machine:
Or you can also do this: