Can't build android project because ActionBarActivity cannot be resolved to a type

Question

I'm following the training on the developer.android.com site and when I arrived at the Building your first app / Starting another activity section I failed:

I've added the android-support-v7-appcompat library according to this site describes: http://developer.android.com/tools/support-library/setup.html#libs-with-res

Where I select the libraries for an android project (Properties of the project / Android / Library) I clicked the add button, selected the project library (first picture), and after I pressed ok the project didn't build.

Before (everything is ok)

After

Before all this... I was somehow able to build the project, press the Play, but it unfortunately stopped (crashed) on my device immediately after starting. And the console said:

[2014-07-23 15:06:45 - android-support-v7-appcompat] Could not find android-support-v7-appcompat.apk!

and that was the point when I started investigating the problem... yet unsuccessfully.

My question is, why "deactivating" the library after I check again?

Solution 1

The library project should be placed on the same drive with your workspace. the referencing project was in the same eclipse workspace as the library project.

Solution 2

You should make a copy of appcompat-v7 and put it in your workspace, then have all the projects just reference it.

Comments

[Mitulát báti]

Yeah, that can be a problem since I have my proj. and lib. on two different drives. Now I'm moving eclipse...

[SeanLabs]

+1000. Wasted a day on this, problem was that the lib. was on a different drive. Android development seems to kludgy, why can't someone the size of Google be on top of this?