Archive for October, 2011
Android: Eclipse crashes when opening Resource Chooser dialog on Mac OS X
/* .DS_Store file in “res” directory */
Yesterday, I wanted to see the list of internal icon resources of Android SDK, so I put a dummy ImageView widget to a screen in Graphical Layout and it opens the dialog named “Resource Chooser”. But it causes crash and freeze of Eclipse IDE suddenly. Why? When I previously used Resource Chooser dialog, it works perfect without any error.
In short: The cause is .DS_Store file in “res” directory (incl. all sub directories)
ADT plugin tries to read something from .DS_Store file in “res” directory (especially “drawable” directory) and causes crash. Okay, so I just remove it using Finder… WAIT! If you remove .DS_Store file using Finder, Finder will generate .DS_Store file again. Really scare infinite-loop.
Use Terminal. Remove them using “rm” command from Terminal application. While you’re using Resource Chooser dialog, don’t touch the Finder app which shows “res” directory or its children.