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Here's the steps I followed -

  • Downloaded eclipse 3.5
  • Installed the Android SDK
  • Downloaded SDKs from Android SDK manager.
  • Created a basic Hello World Project.




Anything I'm missing completely?

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Are you definitely on 3.5? This is a known regression in the latest release of Eclipse, and (amongst other things) is a good reason to go back to 3.5 for the time being if you're doing any Android development. There's a bug for this in Eclipse's bug tracker:


If you need any more convincing of dropping back to 3.5 (if you are actually on 3.6, which I'm not saying that you necessarily are, it's just that this is highly unusual if you are) then there are some more issues to go around.

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Thanks, I thought I d/led 3.5, but somehow endedup with 3.6 :( –  Tejaswi Yerukalapudi Aug 22 '10 at 3:21
Yeah, I went through a couple of days of using it in what I thought to be a slightly broken state (having to use the normal XML editor). Then I hit the debugger and it all really fell apart. Back to my previous install now. –  Sinjo Aug 22 '10 at 11:21
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Go to the XML/XML Files/Editor preference page and turn off the "Use inferred grammar..." setting.

Source: http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers/browse_thread/thread/5ea69f7367b725a5/3ff91fea09a34b4a

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i just restarted eclipse and this error gone (it's really help for me ) good luck

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Oops, found a blogpost that fixed it for me. Apparently, you can't open XMLs with Android resource editor. I had to right click > Open With > XML Editor to make it work.


Anyone with a better solution / if I messed something up during the SDK install, please post, I'll accept yours :)

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Vlad's answer is right.

The right choice is that navigate to eclipse's windows-->preferences-->XML-->XMLFiles/Editor preference page and turn off the “Use inferred grammar…” setting.

Just do this, the eclipse will work well.

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Here is my solution for this case, and now, I am using my Eclipse normally:

  1. Go Eclipse >> Help
  2. Select Check For Updates
  3. Please choose all the updates referred to your eclipse.exe

My Situation

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