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Eclipse sucks. Java sucks. Android documentation sucks. That is my opinion now. It may change over time.

This is my first Android and Java project and I am new to Eclipse as well. So, it is expected that I will face a few issues along the way. Usually that is not a problem if there is a clean documentation available. Google is the king of no documentation or poor documentation. Oh, and when you know you suck, you provide no option for feedback, like no comments on this blog.

Anyways, here is the problem I had.

My main project refers to a library. It produces a jar file. Well, at least it is supposed to produce a jar file. Main project produces the apk file. It works fine as long as I don’t have to make changes to the library. Then it won’t rebuild. After a lot of searching on the Internet and finding no solution, I was playing with all the project and classpath files.

Then I added the APK builder to the library project and then suddenly the project started rebuilding the jar files.

To the .project file of the library project, I added this under build spec:

		<buildCommand>
			<name>com.android.ide.eclipse.adt.ApkBuilder</name>
			<arguments>
			</arguments>
		</buildCommand>

That’s it.

I got this error while searching from the address bar.

How to get around this problem without typing the characters?

I opened a tab and went to the Google main page. Started typing in my search term. No problem because I have instant search turned on. As soon as I click on the search button I get the message again. Just don’t hit search or enter.

I just got this error when I was trying build a project.

error CS1668 : Warning as error : Invalid search path ‘c:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC\PlatformSDK\lib’ specified in ‘LIB environment variable’ — ‘The system cannot find the path specified. ‘

I remember seeing this error before and fixed it by faking the directories. This time I know why it happened. I just uninstalled the Silverlight 2.0 SDK. I don’t need it anymore. I have no idea why the Silverlight 2.0 SDK would delete this folder and contents. If it did, why didn’t it remove it from the LIB environment variable? Reboot didn’t help. I could fix it by updating the LIB variable or just create the directory structure.

I am getting this error from my Windows Phone 7 (Samsung Focus). Just for that reason I updated the freaking phone to no-do to no avail. The router is just fine. My laptops new and old running Windows XP and Windows 7 connects fine. iPhone and iPad also connects without any problem. Just this one.

Since I don’t know what the phone is trying to do and what the error means, I really cannot troubleshoot either. None of the answers I found online did work.

Update: I kept getting this error at free WiFi hot spots in airports while traveling.

I doubt that is where Laura lives.