WTF?!?! How do I open res/layout/main.xml file?!?!

I actually find the developer.android.com resource very good.

File > New > Android Project

If you don't have an Android Project item you didn't install the eclipse add-ons correct. The developers.android.com website describes how to do this in the Setting up the SDK section.

 

So you created an Android Project not a standard java project?
Try Window > Open Perspective > Java if you're not already on that Perspective.
Do you have the Package Explorer on the left hand side?
Then in Package Explorer on the right hand side open your project and open res and open layout and open main.xml

Maybe post a screenshot, sounds like you might have a weird layout or something.

 

Are you sure you have an Android project and not a Java project?

 

Eclipse can have a bit of a learning curve, and be confusing at first.

Can I check that your eclipse looks something like the screen-shot below.
Do you have the Package Explorer panel shown at the left of the screen?
Can you see and open up the res & layout folders and see main.xml?



Mark

 

The res folder along with all the others are created for you automatically when you start a new Android project. That's why gorn asked earlier if you were sure you had created an Android project rather than a standard Java project. It sounds like you don't have an Android project.

Try following the instructions to create a new Android project to see what you get. You don't have to change anything you've already done, you can create another project just as a quick test.

Use File -> New -> Android Project...

Fill in the dialog box. The following screenshot is an example I used for someone else. Just for this test, try entering the same values to see what you get.



Then have a look in the Package Explorer to see what files and folders were automatically created. Compare that with what you have for your existing project.

Mark

 

I think it would have been helpful if you'd said that at the start.

Instead of this being a discussion about opening folders, it would have been about how to create a project and how to get the SDK set up correctly.

People did ask earlier if you were sure you had an Android project. That would have been a good time to mention your sdk selection problem.

I can't offer any more help at the moment as I'm away from my PC. (typing this on my nexus one, very slowly)

 

It sounds like you have not installed any Android platforms.


In Eclipse click Window -> Android SDK and AVD Manager
on the left click Available Packages
you should now see the URL to the android repository on google. click the + to expand it
click the checkbox for the android platform you want to target with your app.
click Install Selected on the bottom right
click the radio button for Accept and click install

Once the platform install is complete you should be able to select it as a build target when creating your android project.

You'll also need to create an AVD on which to run/test your project unless you intend to do your testing directly on your phone.

good luck

 

I have been searching for this, and the dang main.xml file!!!

This entire thread has helped me find what I was looking for!!

Eclipse is complex and it takes a lot of time to get used to...

Thanks for all these posts, the one that helped me the most was the one that mark posted. I was checking the packages under projects in "Java Browsing" and could not find the res/layout/main.xml!!!

So, I went to Window >> show view >> Project Explorer ... and then found my project and found the res/layout/ folder where I can edit the main.xml file.

Thanks again to everyone who posted on this thread!

 

It is simple
First left click on left panel and u will see no. of folders
there you will find res folder after that there are many folders like layout,values. You have to click on layout and ther you will find main.xml file where you can write your layout code.
And I think so that it is not as much as stupid as you were saying , they give us complete url.
SO if you have any problem now , then you can send me reply..........

 

it can be found in the R.layout class. in the package explorer if you click on the main tab it opens up the R.java file. Instead right click on the main tab and say show in navigator. you will be able to find it under res->layout. Let me know if you still cant find it.