Error loading the SDK when Eclipse starts

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I have already read varying answers to above question  but I have a specific problem  When I start Eclipse it gives an error    gt  Error Parsing   gt  C  android-sdk r24 2-windows android-sdk-windows system-images android-22 android-wear armeabi-v7a  gt      cvc-complex-type 2 4 d  Invalid content was found starting with element  d skin   No child element is expected at this point    This error happens when Eclipse automatically loads the SDK on startup

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In my case I removed these two  Android TV Intel x86 Atom System Image Wear OS Intel x86 Atom System Image   under Android 9  API 28

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I faced the same issue  To get rid of this issue  I followed the below steps and it worked for me    Close Eclipse Open file devices xml location of this will be shown in the error message  in a text editor  Comment out all tags contains d skin Save files Reopen Eclipse

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The issue is still coming for API 23  To get rid from this we have to uninstall  android Wear packages for both API 22 and API 23 also  till current update

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execute with in under api level 19 right click on project go to preporty and then select android    lt uses-sdk     android minSdkVersion  8      android targetSdkVersion  19    gt

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Feel tired deleting the android-wear related packages each time upgrading the sdk   Try to make some changes to devices xml as following  you can edit the files by hand  or use some batching tools like repl   repl is written by me  add this line to sources list and install   echo  http   deb bodz net  unstable    gt  gt  etc apt sources list alias sagu  sudo apt-get update  alias sagi  sudo apt-get install  sagu sagi repl   Then  remove those  lt d skin gt  lines and replace    dpi to hdpi or whatever   repl -r --filter devices xml --mode regexp --   lt d skin gt    lt  d skin gt        repl -r --filter devices xml --  280dpi   hdpi    repl -r --filter devices xml --  360dpi   xhdpi

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Copy the  default devices xml file from     home user android-sdk tools lib devices xml  and paste it in the below paths   android-sdk system-images android-22 android-wear armeabi-v7a  and  android-sdk system-images android-22 android-wear x86   This is a alternative solution  however  before replacing the devices xml  take backup of the existing devices xml file in these folders

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I couldn t delete the system image  idk why   so I took the approach of deleting all occurrences of g skin in any xml file since eclipse don t know what that is     find   -type f -name    xml  -print0   xargs -0 sed -i  d skin d     On windows you might want to run it within Cygwin or cmder

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Check the    Android wear ARM EABI Android wear Intel x86   Than delete them and restart Eclipse IDE  This should fix the problem

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Working fine after removing the Android Wear ARM EABI v7a system image and wear intel x86 Atom System image

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I solve this issue deleting the 10 packages in my android sdk manage

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Apart from Android Wear image  the same error is also displayed for Android TV as well  so if you do not have Android Wear image installed but have Android TV image installed  please uninstall that and then try

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There are lots of answer already given for this problem  Though this issue can happens for any API version  so just see the error line and find out android api version from path and platform name and go to the android sdk manager and delete related system image from sdk manager

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This was my error message      Error  Error Parsing   C  Android sdk system-images android-22 android-wear armeabi-v7a devices xml   Invalid content was found starting with element  d Skin   No child   element is expected at this point    There  s a kind of problem with android Wear packages for API 22  so my solution was deleting this two packages from the API 22

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In my case  I have the latest Android SDK and just have to remove delete the Android Wear system images and it worked

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I had the same problem and it appears when I updated my sdk packages and added sdk 22 I removed all wear packages from sdk 22 as well as other sdks but problem wasn t resolved I Updated all of my sdk packages again from sdk manager then problem solved and error gone   I think there s been few bugs with eclipse and android wear packages which are fixed in new updates available in sdk manager

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To remove error from eclipse for android there are few steps -    1 open eclipse check all the error  2 In search tab open SDK manager  3 Remove all the value show as error in eclipse  4 After remove from sdk restart eclipse

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On MacOS 10 10 2   Removed the lines  containing  d skin  from device xml from     Users user Library Android sdk system-images android-22 android-wear x86  Users user Library Android sdk system-images android-22 android-wear armeabi-v7a  Restart the eclipse  the problem should be resolved

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I have faced the same parse sdk loading problem during eclipse startup like yours  Shown in image below      The solution to above problem is to just delete uninstall  the package Android Wear ARM EABI v7a system image available under Android 5 1 1  API 22  if it s installed   No need to uninstall whole 5 1 1 package   May be there is some eclipse bug with this package     Finally restart eclipse to see your changes      Edit  If the problem still exists  try removing other Android Wear   package also  i e Android Wear Intel x86 Atom System Image  as   suggested by  Abhishek in comments below

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I removed the packages indicated in the api 22 in the sdk and the problem is not resolved   I edited device xml of Applications   Android   android-sdk-macosx   system-images   android-22   android-wear   x86 and of Applications   Android   android-sdk-macosx   system-images   android-22   android-wear   armeabi-v7a I removed the lines containing  d skin   Finally restart eclipse and the problem was resolved

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