I'm developing for Android with eclipse and was attempting to connect some extra Widgets to my (normally working) UI, but i was met with a blank grey UI - all my UI Graphics Widgets(and Buttons) gone -

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and I also had this

This version of the rendering library is more recent than your version of ADT plug-in. Please update ADT plug-in

(BTW, googling to Stack Overflow, I found that people using Android Studio also encounter this problem, but their solution wasn't for eclipse)

Attempting to update via Help->Check for Updates, I had this

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I then tried to update via Help->Install New Software, clicking Add and choosing/adding ADT Plugin - https://dl-ssl.google.com/android/eclipse/ and checking Developer Tools, but the next and finish buttons are disabled, so I was unable to install new software (or update) and can't get my UI/Widgets back

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Any help on how I can update ADT Plugin and get my widgets back?

I would appreciate it if anyone can help (Or a-safe-work-around-hack if this is due to lack of support for eclipse)

[Note: switching to Android Studio has not worked for me. I know it works for many people, but several months ago I made numerous attempts to port to Android Studio, but had so many serious issues, IIRC ranging for Gradle builds problems, pop-ups that give me errors no matter what options I choose, numerous unresolved errors when porting projects from eclipse ..... to mention a few. I posted so many of the problems on 'Mobile and Console' subforum but they remained unsolved and I was stuck for so long with the same problems ....

I know Android doesn't provide support for eclipse anymore but so far my project development has been going fine until now. I prefer to try to resolve this one problem on eclipse than the numerous unending problems I faced on Android Studio. ]

Thanks for the links, though when I tried in eclipse it says "site cannot be found". And I could not find ADT download for eclipse link in the second link

Personally I would advise biting the bullet and getting Android Studio to work - sticking with Eclipse is only going to get harder over time.

I appreciate your advice though I'm not sure what you really mean here, ... seems like you think there is some push or effort I could make to get Android Studio to work and I'm just reluctant to. If you read the footnote of my original post - I explained how my efforts went ... (maybe its because i'm not skilled enough or whatever...) but I could not get AS to work ... I posted issues I had, which where many and overwhelming but got no solutions. This current issue with eclipse is significant, but compared to what I encountered with AS looks solvable

Still hoping some one has an idea on this, thnx

Have you possibly updated your sdk recently, and/or changed the target sdk version you are building for?

I haven't recently, but I had to delete the cache and ddms.cfg from the "user/.../.android" folder often recently due to persistent "android sdk content loader stuck at 0%" issue.

I also had to temporarily delete .Project folder in \workspace\.metadata\.plugins\org.eclipse.core.resources\\, then overwrite it back to solve the same "loader stuck at 0%" problem

Don't know if these actions caused it. I would try to reverse these actions to see if it can solve it

Might be a problem if you really need the higher API version, but maybe you can switch down temporarily to get your UI changes in.

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Only other option I can think of is doing it "by hand" by editing the xml files directly.

Seem v good suggestions, I would also try these

Many thanx @Olof Hedman

finally fixed my eclipse xml renderer and got my graphics UI back, thanks again @Olof your suggestions helped

Now full code is working as should do...