Installing the ADT Plugin for Eclipse

Question

I am trying to install the ADT plugin for Eclipse. However, after I have went to \"Install New Software...\" and entered the plugin location https://dl-ssl.google.com/android/ec

Answer 1

What versions of eclipse are you using?

In Helios I was able to install the plugin by going to Help -> Eclipse MarketPlace -> Yoxos MarketPlace (Second Icon at the bottom) and search for ADT and install.

Answer 2

I find these google sites very difficult to connect with from certain networks, but not from others. Here in Germany, I had terrible trouble going through Alice, but none going through Deutsche Telekom.

Sometimes I could reach the dl-ssl host from Alice, but in some later operation it would hang then time out. A day or so later, I might be able to make a connection again. Some people say they had luck going through a proxy, or by changing "http" to "https". I also saw this.

Here's what I think is going on.

First, Eclipse is miserably buggy, and handles unexpected situations very badly (for example, catching all exceptions, but failing to provide the exception's message!!), particularly when it comes to unresponsive links. It reminds me of the stock story of the mentally disturbed psychiatrist.

It looks as though the google server is badly configured, possibly as a naive protection mechanism meant to repel denial-of-service attacks: it only handles a few connection requests within a certain time frame from hosts certain networks, and if it gets too many requests, it locks out connections with the host for a long time.

Unfortunately, a single Eclipse update might require many connections in rapid succession; somebody unsure of how to configure Eclipse the first time will likely trip the Google booby-trap.

In my case, I was able to download what I needed by carefully choosing a subset of the available software, being very patient, and if I got locked out, just waiting a day until it let me in again.

Cheers!

Answer 3

The only answer I found out when I got this problem was to download the latest 'Eclipse Indigo for Java', updating the ADT and android SDK. After few hours, everything was normal.

Answer 4

In my case I use proxy setting, and I follow the instruction of this post. But just one small modification: the SOCKETS setting should be clear and empty as suggested by here

Answer 5

1. Goto Preferences->Network Connections and set the correct option (native/direct as per your proxy settings on your network) restart eclipse and try again. [Switching to direct worked for me at home, however in office i had to configure it to native..] (Proxy settings require restart of eclipse IDE on some machines to take effect)
2. Ensure that your eclipse has all android toolkit dependencies (wst/emf...) installed (http://developer.android.com/resources/faq/troubleshooting.html#installeclipsecomponents)

Answer 6

Use Following link to update ADT Pligins.

https://dl-ssl.google.com/android/eclipse/site.xml