How to avoid "Refreshing external Folders" in Android development in Eclipse

Question

I am having this annoying problem which takes 10-20 seconds and sometimes more every time my android project is refreshed or rebuilt.

I searched for android forums and also in stackoverflow and but solutions does not make sense. Please give me the solution or link to it.

My android project depends on two external java libs and android libs. Tell me if you need more info.

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Earlier I asked this question and it solved the problem by removing 'source attachment'. But I believe it is not a good solution because I need source to be attached with jar. It helps while debugging, code browsing. If source is not attached then, your breakpoint stops there and you can't go in readable source.

Better Solution Needed. Is there a launcher option? which disables when app launched. or build options?

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Answer 1

Instead of attaching a source folder to the .jar file, you should zip the source folder and attach the zipped file to the .jar.

See this answer for more info https://stackoverflow.com/a/9699242/637754