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Thu, 31 Dec 2009

Android install
I am installing the Android SDK. For Linux, it suggests the Eclipse IDE, at least version 3.4. I use Eclipse 3.5, "Galileo". So I am installing the plug-in and get (in an almost impossible to read output box)

Cannot complete the install because one or more required items could not 
be found.
  Software being installed: Android Development Tools 
0.9.5.v200911191123-20404 (com.android.ide.eclipse.adt.feature.group 
0.9.5.v200911191123-20404)
  Missing requirement: Android Development Tools 
0.9.5.v200911191123-20404 (com.android.ide.eclipse.adt.feature.group 
0.9.5.v200911191123-20404) requires 'org.eclipse.wst.xml.ui 0.0.0' but 
it could not be found

What this translates to is Android is dependent on another plug-in. So I go to install the webtools/wst xml plug-in, but it needs an EMF plugin. Then it needs a GEF plugin. Finally it will accept the webtools/wst plugin. Then the Android plugin can be installed. This sounds easy, but between Eclipse's junky and non-intuitive GUI and Android's documentation not mentioning their plugin had dependencies, it was not.

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