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The process of installing the ADT plugin went normally until the Add Android Preference step where I need to specify the Android SDK folder which traditionally is at C:\Program Files (x86)\Android\android-studio\sdk .

The problem is the developer.android.com doesn't support SDK Manager.exe as a standalone package anymore but as sdkmanager.bat in their Command line tools package thus the SDK folder is different (Maybe SDK Manager.exe still exists as long as I install their Android Studio along but I want to use Eclipse for Java IDE in general, not just Android development).

Previously the sdk folder contains these so Eclipse can locate the SDK component: (from instructables.com)

tradition sdk folder

But now there is only a tools folder and inside it are bin and lib.

Though I ran this code sdkmanager "platform-tools" "platforms;android-29" (then the platforms and platform-tools folder spawned outside the cmdline-tools folder) but when I add the folder C:\android\cmdline-tools (which is my ANDROID_HOME path and it contains the tools folder as required by the Eclipse IDE at the Add Android Reference step), the IDE gives me 2 warnings which are SDK Platform Tools component is missing and Failed to get the required ADT version number from the SDK. Thus the ADT will not work properly since it cannot locate the SDK components.

Maybe this is because the Elcipse IDE hasn't caught up with the developer.android.com yet or I am doing wrong somewhere? Please let me know if you have a solution.

xceeded
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  • Eclipse has not been supported for Android development for several years now. – greg-449 Apr 15 '20 at 06:35
  • @greg-449 No way, there is the ADT plugin and tutorials on setting it up for Android development in Eclipse (though out-dated). – xceeded Apr 15 '20 at 06:37
  • I think the Eclipse really hasn't caught up with the _android_ _developer_ _site_ because their way of locating the sdk components is really different from how the _android_ _developers_ organize their components now with their new _command line tools_. – xceeded Apr 15 '20 at 06:44
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    The Eclipse foundation is nothing to do with the Android plug-ins, they are from Google. Google dropped Eclipse support in favour of Android Studio some time ago. Eclipse is not going to catch up, no-one is doing any development on the ADT plug-in. – greg-449 Apr 15 '20 at 07:59
  • @greg-449 thanks I believe that is the case now. – xceeded Apr 15 '20 at 13:53
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    The AndMore project, https://projects.eclipse.org/projects/tools.andmore, was intended to carry this forward, but it hasn't had a release in over two years at this point. – nitind Apr 16 '20 at 15:19

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