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invalid reference to 'R' object in new project [message #957935]

Thu, 25 October 2012 12:05

Ruud Naastepad
Messages: 2
Registered: October 2012

Junior Member

I just installed Eclipse Juno with Android 2.1 SDK on an Ubuntu 12.04 system with Java 1.6.0_35 JDK.

When I create a new Android Application project a source file MainActiviy.java is created automatically with reference to an object named 'R'. Eclipse reports an error there: 'R cannot be resolved to a variable'. If I right click on R looking for its declaration I get error 'the source attachment does not contain the source for the file R.class. Then it says you can change the source attachment by clicking change attached source. When I do so and point the the file android.jar that contains the source code it still doesn't show.

What is wrong?

(I had Eclipse with the same configuration installed under Windows and there this problem didn't arise (right clicking on R shows the sourcecode for class R and no error is reported in the first place about R.)

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Re: invalid reference to 'R' object in new project [message #959164 is a reply to message #957935]

Fri, 26 October 2012 09:53

Russell Bateman
Messages: 2711
Registered: July 2009
Location: Provo, Utah, USA

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On 10/26/2012 07:42 AM, Ruud Naastepad wrote:
> I just installed Eclipse Juno with Android 2.1 SDK on an Ubuntu 12.04
> system with Java 1.6.0_35 JDK.
>
> When I create a new Android Application project a source file
> MainActiviy.java is created automatically with reference to an object
> named 'R'. Eclipse reports an error there: 'R cannot be resolved to a
> variable'. If I right click on R looking for its declaration I get error
> 'the source attachment does not contain the source for the file R.class.
> Then it says you can change the source attachment by clicking change
> attached source. When I do so and point the the file android.jar that
> contains the source code it still doesn't show.
>
> What is wrong?
>
> (I had Eclipse with the same configuration installed under Windows and
> there this problem didn't arise (right clicking on R shows the
> sourcecode for class R and no error is reported in the first place about
> R.)

http://www.eclipse.org/forums/index.php/t/225513/

http://www.javahotchocolate.com/tutorials/android.html#r-java

Best of luck.

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Re: invalid reference to 'R' object in new project [message #959494 is a reply to message #959164]

Fri, 26 October 2012 15:14

Ruud Naastepad
Messages: 2
Registered: October 2012

Junior Member

Thanks. Actually the problem was not an Android problem but was solved by following the instructions from message #509484. To my surprise I may say since I followed detailed instructions (wiki.ubuntuusers.de/Java/Installation/Oracle_Java?redirect=no) to do a clean install of Java 1.6 JDK after uninstalling the OpenJDK. However Eclipse apparently still managed to find a reference to the wrong JDK...

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