Android ADT Eclipse plugin, parseSDKContent failed

Question

I've just set up my first Android development environment consisting of

• Eclipse 3.5
• Mac OSX 10.5
• Android SDK for x86 macs
• ADT Eclipse plugin 0.9.6

I've set set $PATH to my SDK/tools directory (which shouldn't matter if I only use Eclipse right?) and started Eclipse, but when I try to set the path to the SDK in Eclipse, i get the error "parseSdkContent failed". The stack trace of from the thrown exception is

java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema
at javax.xml.validation.SchemaFactory.newInstance(SchemaFactory.java:181)
at com.android.ide.eclipse.adt.internal.sdk.LayoutDevicesXsd.getValidator(Unknown Source)
at com.android.ide.eclipse.adt.internal.sdk.LayoutDeviceManager.parseLayoutDevices(Unknown Source)
at com.android.ide.eclipse.adt.internal.sdk.LayoutDeviceManager.loadDefaultLayoutDevices(Unknown Source)
at com.android.ide.eclipse.adt.internal.sdk.LayoutDeviceManager.loadDefaultAndUserDevices(Unknown Source)
at com.android.ide.eclipse.adt.internal.sdk.Sdk.<init>(Unknown Source)
at com.android.ide.eclipse.adt.internal.sdk.Sdk.loadSdk(Unknown Source)
at com.android.ide.eclipse.adt.AdtPlugin$13.run(Unknown Source)
at org.eclipse.core.internal.jobs.Worker.run(Worker.java:55)

I can't see that I've missed anything in the setup process, according to the instructions it should basically just work out of the box. Any ideas as to why this might fail?

Answer 1

So my solution was completely different. The project.properties was corrupted. I had to edit it from the command line as eclipse didn't want to do anything for me. I deleted everything that was unnecessary. So that the file looked like this:

# This file is automatically generated by Android Tools.
# Do not modify this file -- YOUR CHANGES WILL BE ERASED!
#
# This file must be checked in Version Control Systems.
#
# To customize properties used by the Ant build system use,
# "ant.properties", and override values to adapt the script to your
# project structure.

# Project target.
target=android-15

Closed Eclipse. Opened it again.

I then went back into the project properties and reset my libraries. This solved the problem. Hope this helps someone else!

Answer 2

For me updating the DDMS from ADT plugin did the trick!

Before that for saving time I only updated ADT plugin, nothing else like Android DDMS, TraceView etc. so I ran into same issue, after couple of restarts and Google searches everyone was proposing different solutions. I updated my Android DDMS and restarted eclipse.

And It worked like a charm.

I didn't had to remove my workspace or update my .project file etc.