Thanks, Xav. After deleting the ApiDemos project from Eclipse, the Android SDK and AVD manager correctly downloaded, installed, and unzipped the samples directory.
I think my SDK directory is now fully recovered from my accidental creation of 100+ ApiDemos nested subdirectories. As far as I know (and I'm not too keen on finding the exact steps to recreate it), that problem was caused when I tried to create an ApiDemos project with 'File/New Project/Android Project/create project from existing source' and got a dialog suggesting to use 'File/Import' because the ApiDemos project already existed. However, when I selected 'File/Import/ existing projects into workspace/copy projects into workspace' there was about a minute of processing before I got suspicious and canceled the operation. The hazard with that problem is that it seemed to be on its way to filling the file system, and removing the accidentally created and deeply nested directory was tricky because the file manager application as well as the 'rmdir /S' command failed due to the extremely long path names. Thanks for your work in providing an impressive development tool set. - Greg On Apr 7, 5:27 pm, Xavier Ducrohet <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 8:12 AM, greg <[email protected]> wrote: > > it contains only a '/android-7/ApiDemos/.metadata' directory and all > > the sample code is still in a 'android-sdk-windows/temp/ > > samples-2.1_r01-linux.zip/samples-2.1_r01-linux' directory. In my > > previous download of the SDK samples, I didn't have to manually unzip > > the sample directory. > > It might be because Eclipse still have the project you created and > locked the folder somehow. > Make sure to delete your current ApiDemos project from Eclipse. > > > Is 'samples-2.1_r01-linux' the correct directory for the SDK installed > > on a Windows system? How can I fix the 'Android SDK and AVD Manager' > > within Eclipse so that it unzips packages after downloading them ... > > as it previously has done. > > Yes. It's unfortunate that the name contains the linux platform (this > is because we took the package from a linux build server), but the > content is in fact platform independent (it's all source and resource > files), and the archive is marked as such in the repository. > > Xav > -- > Xavier Ducrohet > Android SDK Tech Lead > Google Inc. > > Please do not send me questions directly. Thanks! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en To unsubscribe, reply using "remove me" as the subject.
