Thanks for the suggestions. I thought I already tried the Refresh, but I will try that again. I did not try the Clean Project, so that will be worth trying, too.
But for now, I have to admit my enthusiasm for this particular tutorial is somewhat dampened by the problems I found running it under SDK 1.5 as described in http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2180966/bug-running-android-tutorial-hellotabwidget-under-sdk-1-5-setcurrenttaggetinte/2182310#2182310. On Feb 2, 9:17 am, Sean Hodges <seanhodge...@googlemail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 3:52 PM, Kitzy <kitzyk...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Also, it is best to program to the lowest sdk version possible. All > > sdks. Are backwards compatable (somethiing made for 1.5 will work on > > 2.1. However something made for 2.1 won't work on 1.5) although you > > can/should test in your 2.1 emulator. > > That's not entirely true. You can develop apps in the 2.1 SDK that > work on Android 1.5. You just need to adjust the minSdkVersion in your > AndroidManifest.xml as detailed > here:http://developer.android.com/intl/fr/guide/publishing/versioning.html... > > The thing that matters is that you test your product on Android 1.5 > (either on a physical device, or using the 1.5 emulator) before > shipping it. There is functionality available in the latest SDK that > simply won't work correctly on earlier versions of Android, and you > need to iron these out before the app will work correctly on the > earlier versions. > > Regarding the original question: creating a "drawable/" directory is > not a kludge, you can delete the "drawable-hdpi/" etc directories and > stick with just "drawable/" if you want. > > However, doing this should not be required. You are able to put all > your images in "drawable-hdpi/" and they should all be seen by > Eclipse. The fact that this was not happening for you suggests that > you dropped the images DIRECTLY into the directory, and Eclipse simply > did not find them for some reason. You should try right-clicking on > the project in the Eclipse package explorer tree, and selecting > "Refresh". > > If that doesn't get rid of your error message, then try the "Project" > -> "Clean..." option in the menu bar to re-build your entire project - > occasionally, the new files are found, but your R.java is not updated > for some reason. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Beginners" group. NEW! Try asking and tagging your question on Stack Overflow at http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/android To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-beginners+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-beginners?hl=en
