Android ADB has moved and Eclipse is looking in the old place
- by Peter Nelson
I did an SDK update last night and it moved adb.exe. In its place it left a file called "adb_has_moved.txt" saying
The adb tool has moved to platform-tools/
If you don't see this directory in your SDK, launch the SDK and AVD
Manager (execute the android tool) and install "Android SDK Platform-tools"
Please also update your PATH environment variable to include the
platform-tools/ directory, so you can execute adb from any location.
So I did all that, including the PATH and now I can start adb.exe from any DOS prompt. But I still can't start it from Eclipse (Galileo 3.52). When I try it says
Location of the Android SDK has not been set up in the preferences
... which is not true. The SDK IS set up in Preferences. The real problem is at the top of the Preferences window where it says "Could not find C:\SDK\android-sdk-windows\ tools \adb.exe!" ...No kidding - the update moved it to C:\SDK\android-sdk-windows\ platform-tools. Because it's specifying a specific (wrong) path Eclipse is bypassing the PATH variable. So how do I get Eclipse to look in the right place?
