Error with parsing Android sdk content and initializing java tooling in eclipse

Question

Every time I open Eclipse, I get the following error messages:

Android SDK Content Loader: parseSdkContent failed java.lang.NullPointerException

Initializing Jav

Answer 1

I discovered another cause, where I'd added a space character into an otherwise blank line in the project.properties file. When I eventually ran android update project -p . the program (android.exe) threw a NPE exception. When I deleted the space from the blank line the android update project command worked and eclipse started behaving (after running clean a few times).

This happened with r20 of the Android SDK on a Windows 7 64-bit machine.

FYI my change that fixed the problem in project.properties is public at http://code.google.com/p/android-daisy-epub-reader/source/detail?r=517