Android and the Missing GEN Folder

I’ve been playing around with Android now and so far it’s been a good experience save one really annoying thing.

Project ‘Project Name’ is missing required source folder: ‘gen’

Seriously?!  I mean common, the folder is in the project for crying out loud!  Sadly I’m not the only one who has been plagued by this error.  Many Google searches later and still no hard-fast answer that.  I have found one thing that seems to help although it’s a pain to keep doing it over and over again….

  1. Delete the R.java file under the gen folder
  2. Refresh the project
  3. Build Project, not Clean

This, so far, seems to be the only way to consistently get rid of the missing gen folder message….

Android and the Missing GEN Folder

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  1. Christian F says:
    November 3, 2009 at 1:10 pm

    Hey,

    setting the java version in project settings solved this issue for me.

    Cheers Christian

  2. Christian F says:
    November 3, 2009 at 1:10 pm

    Hey,

    setting the java version in project settings to 1.6 solved this issue for me.

    Cheers Christian

  3. Portablejim says:
    January 8, 2010 at 6:30 am

    Try editing a file and saving it.
    Source: http://www.coderanch.com/t/466092/Android/Mobile/android-eclipse

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