I am starting Android Development using Eclipse. I have downloaded all the required software but I am having the same problem as discussed here. Now I do not find the solution of the problem on that discussion so let me rewrite the problem again,
When I load Eclipse and create a new Android project, it keeps on waiting for the ADT to load. To figure out what is wrong I went to preferences and tried to put the location of the ADT I created in it but it keeps giving me this error when I put the address of ADT,
Could not find folder 'tools' inside SDK 'E:\Documents and Settings\Fahad\android-sdks\'..
I would be very thankful if someone could help me out with this problem.
Thanks in advance.
EDIT: I created the foolder tools manually, now I am getting this error,
[2011-12-24 15:23:56 - DDMS] DDMS files not found: E:\Documents and Settings\Fahad\android-sdks\platform-tools\adb.exe E:\Documents and Settings\Fahad\android-sdks\tools\hprof-conv.exe E:\Documents and Settings\Fahad\android-sdks\tools\traceview.bat
[2011-12-24 15:42:06 - DDMS] DDMS files not found: E:\Documents and Settings\Fahad\.android\platform-tools\adb.exe E:\Documents and Settings\Fahad\.android\tools\hprof-conv.exe E:\Documents and Settings\Fahad\.android\tools\traceview.bat
By default it looks for the SDK tools in "C:\Documents and Settings\user\android-sdks". Some times we install it at another location. So you just have to select the correct path and it will done.
In my case i was using Ubuntu. Where the was two directories one was /android-sdks and /android-sdk-linux. I used the second one it works for me :)
My solution was to remove the Eclipse ADT plugin via menu "Help > About Eclipse SDK > Installation Details". Eclipse will restart.
Next go to Menu "Help > Install New Software", then add the ADT plugin url "https://dl-ssl.google.com/android/eclipse" (or select the existing link from the dropdown).
This will re-install the latest ADT, including the DDMS files.
If you get the "Failed to find DDMS files..." do this:
Don't be alarmed that its not https, this helps to fetch stuff over http. This trick helped me to resolve the issue on MAC, I believe that this also should work on Windows / Linux
Hope this helps !
For me it was a simple case of specifying the path to the 'sdk' subfolder rather than the top level folder.
In my case I needed to input
/Users/Myusername/Documents/adt-bundle-mac-x86_64-20140321/sdk
instead of
/Users/Myusername/Documents/adt-bundle-mac-x86_64-20140321
This can also happen due to the bad unzipping process of SDK.It Happend to me. Dont use inbuilt windows unzip process. use WINRAR software for unzipping sdk
I faced similar issue when the SDK tools installation was failed during the initial setup. To resolution is to download SDK tools from Android Developer Site
If I get you correctly you have just downloaded Android sdk and want to configure it working with Eclipse. I think you miss one step from the installation of the sdk:
1) you download it
2) you extract it somewhere
3) then go to the specified directory and start AndroidManager (or was it just android??). There you specify you need platform-tools and the manager will configure that for you. This will also provide you with the 'adb' executable which is crucial for the Android developement.
After that you install ADT (which I think you already did) and from Eclipse preferences -> Android options you get a place to specify where your android-sdk is. If you specify it after you did the 'step 3' you should be good to go.
I am not 100% sure I got it correctly and what your state is, so please forgive me if my comment is irrelevant. If I am wrong I will be happy to help if you provide some more details.
Something I am completely sure is that you shouldn't need to create the folder 'tools' by yourself.
PS: The description I gave is for newer versions of android sdk, but if you are encountering a problem with older version I will recommend you to start from scratch with newer version. It shouldn't take you that long time.
Source: Stackoverflow.com