eclipse - Mac Error Create Android Project - "Errors running builder 'Android Resource Manager' on project"

Question

I spent the whole day just trying to create a simple Android Application Project on my Mac (10.7.5). When pressing "Finish" in the project wizard, I got the following error message:

    Errors occurred during the build.
    Errors running builder 'Android Resource Manager' on project 'MyFirstApp'.
    java.lang.NullPointerException

A project with empty directories was created, but no files were generated except for a file called "proguard-project.txt", which just contained comments.

I literally just downloaded the ADT Bundle onto my Mac.

I've already had a look at here and tried all the suggestions there, like removing the ".metadata" folder and trying to change the Android "Project Build Target".

I've also tried using Eclipse Juno and Kepler - same problem. I've reinstalled Eclipse and recreated workspaces many many times.

So I'm pretty stuck...it's not working out of the box. Any help would be most appreciated.

Answer 1

I got same error on my windows machine.

When I compared project file system with other working project I found that

  project.properties 

was missing, So I Created a txt file and renamed it to "project.properties" then got this message on my console.

 "Project has no project.properties file! Edit the project properties to set one"

Then I went through project menu

project->properties->android->choose & set the "project build target".

then build it.now everything was smooth.

We just setup a valid project.properites file for that project.