Eclipse - Android Library Update

Related to the question here, is the Android Library Update step necessary and, if not, can it be removed from the startup and/or build process? A manual update seems like an appropriate option, especially if it improves build times and you alre开发者_运维问答ady have a previous clean compile.

You can disable Android Development Toolkit from General -> Startup and Shutdown.

this may not exactly answer your question, but if you do have a lot of projects it will rebuilt all of it when you open eclipse. what i do myself is i "close" the projects that I'm not working on and I find it more tolerable

If you don't need to debug your native code, you could simply not add native support in the first place and just build it on the command line when needed. Then your eclipse project would simply act as a Java only project and build quickly.

I had this problem with 50 ish projects in my workspace. Not all of them are open at once. Still the 'Android Library Update' would show up every time I needed to update a small thing on every project and really slow me down.

I tried following but the last one worked like a charm for me.

Obviously, opening only related projects helps too.

Removing Build Automatically gets rid of this problem but makes twice more problems. You end up wasting more time manually building the projects. Didn't work for me at all.

Selectively building only the projects that changed helps too.

But the main thing that completely fixed this problem for me was following

Go to Window->Preference->Android->Build and make sure the third check box Skip packaging and dexing until export or launch. is marked on.