Error using eclipse for Android - No resource found that matches the given name

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Common problem I m sure  but I can t figure it out   In my AndroidManifest xml and main xml I m getting the no resource found that matches the given name   I ve double checked for typos and it used to work  but now I m popping up with all these errors saying it can t find my strings in my strings xml     These are the ones I m getting errors for in my main xml        lt TextView     android layout width  fill parent      android layout height  wrap content      android layout marginTop  10dip      android text   string instructions       gt        lt TextView     android layout width  fill parent      android layout height  wrap content      android layout marginTop  10dip      android text   string level prompt       gt        lt Spinner              android id    id spinner              android layout width  fill parent              android layout height  wrap content              android prompt   string level array       gt    These are the ones I m getting for my androidmanifest xml    lt application android icon   drawable icon  android label   string app name  gt   lt activity android name   HelloFormStuff  android label   string title  gt    This is what my strings xml looks like    lt string name  title  gt Title lt  string gt   lt string name  app name  gt Application name lt  string gt    lt string name  instructions  gt Enter instructions here  lt  string gt    lt string name  level prompt  gt Choose an item lt  string gt    lt string-array name  level array  gt           lt item gt Item One lt  item gt           lt item gt Item Two lt  item gt           lt item gt Item Three lt  item gt           lt item gt Item Four lt  item gt   lt  string-array gt    Any ideas   Any help would be appreciated

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I renamed the file in res values  strings xml  to  string xml   no  s  on the end   cleaned and rebuilt without error

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Accidentally moved the  values  folder outside of the  res  folder   Moved it back and it fired up

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Eclipse doesn t seem to like imported programs  What worked for me is renaming strings xml to string xml  save  without error  and then rename it back to strings xml  save again and error doesn t show up again   Eclipse would be sooo good if it wasn t for those tiny little errors all the time

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I actually has this problem once with a path issue referring another project    I had this in my default properties   android library reference 1     MyProject Core     Which I fixed like this   android library reference 1    MyProject Core    My colleague created the above with Windows but only the version below worked on my Mac

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I had the same issue and tried most of the solutions mentioned above and they did not fix it    At then end  I went to my  csproj file and viewed it in the text editor  I found that my xml file that I put in the  Drawable was not set to be AndroidResouces it was just of type Content    Changing that to be of type AndroidResouces fixed the issue for me

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I think the issue is that you have   android prompt   string level array    and you don t have any string with the id  to refer to the array  you need to use  array  test this or put a screen of your log please

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tried what KennyH write but it didn t solved my problem that appear while trying edit style xml file in my android app  so I just delete the project from eclipse  not from disk of course     and import it back  solved it for me in that case

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This problem appeared for me due to an error in an XML layout file   By changing  id meid to   id meid  note the plus   I got it to work   If not  sometimes you just gotta go to Project -  Clean

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For me the issue appeared because my string file could not be parsed  I wanted to have a value  like   s -  s   However this appeared to be triggering a problem  it seems string will try to parse this value in a special way  Because two string values were provided in a single value an error was written in the console  but I had so many errors triggered from that  that the initial error was hidden  because of small console buffer  Adding formatted  false  attribute to this string value of mine fixed the problem in the string file  which btw was not reported as compilation error in the file itself  and I was able to build once more

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I had problem with puuting background image  Error was the same  But I solved it by removing extension of file  android background   drawable sky png   ---   android background   drawable sky

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I resolved this kind of issue like this  I went into my XML layout file  cut the line of code that was generating the error   Then I saved the file  and pasted the code back in   The error was gone

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Yet another Googlemare Landmine      I solved this same problem today  Somehow  if you mess up  the icon line on your  gen file dies   Empirical proof of mine after struggling 2 hours   Insert a new icon 72x72 icon on the hdpi folder with a different name from the original  and update the name on the manifest also   The icon somehow resurrects on the Gen file and voila   time to move on

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Project ---  Clean does the trick in most of the cases  It did in mine

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One general solution to such tiny errors is that you close eclipse and start is again   3 irritating problems were solved   its the problem with eclipse   some times it didn resolve  R id   the it didn find  string somebutton  and then again some random thing    if nothing logical comes in your mind  try this  n conjure d result

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If you are an iPhone Developer don t just add your picture  by right clicking then add file   like we do in iPhone   You have to copy and paste the picture in your drawable folder

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