{"id":357,"date":"2014-07-03T18:00:51","date_gmt":"2014-07-03T17:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sebcharrot.com\/blog\/?p=357"},"modified":"2014-07-03T18:00:51","modified_gmt":"2014-07-03T17:00:51","slug":"android-fix-unresolved-symbols","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sebcharrot.com\/blog\/android-fix-unresolved-symbols\/","title":{"rendered":"Android Studio – Fix sudden unresolved symbols"},"content":{"rendered":"

Android Studio is a fickle beast. At times surprisingly clever and useful, and other times a flaky nightmare.<\/p>\n

The most recent issue I came across was when a Google Glass project suddenly stopped building with unresolved symbol errors. This manifests itself as all your “com.google.android.glass.*” imports failing, and the resulting use of any object from those libs causing compilation errors.<\/p>\n

\"What<\/a>

What the hell, Android Studio??<\/p><\/div>\n

How to fix it<\/h1>\n

Eventually I checked my project dependencies and explicitly added the GDK\u00a0as a library. Bingo, that sorted it out.<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. Copy the gdk.jar\n

    This will be in your\u00a0Android SDK directory, under \/add-ons\/addon-google_gdk-google-19\/libs<\/em><\/li>\n

  2. Paste it into the libs folder in your project directory\n

    e.g. C:\\Projects\\MyProject\\app\\libs<\/p>\n

    <\/em><\/li>\n

  3. Go to File > Project Structure<\/li>\n
  4. Select your module (default name is app<\/strong>)<\/li>\n
  5. Click the Dependencies tab<\/li>\n
  6. Click the “+” sign<\/li>\n
  7. Navigate to the libs folder and select the gdk.jar<\/em> file<\/li>\n
  8. OK through everything<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    I have zero idea why the issue suddenly arose. As with so many other issues I’ve come across in my short time developing for Android, I’ve learned to FDM<\/strong>: fix, document, and move on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Android Studio is a fickle beast. At times surprisingly clever and useful, and other times a flaky nightmare. The most recent issue I came across was when a Google Glass project suddenly stopped building with unresolved symbol errors. This manifests itself as all your “com.google.android.glass.*” imports failing, and the resulting use of any object from… Read More »Android Studio – Fix sudden unresolved symbols<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[28,29,80,93,107,122,177],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebcharrot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebcharrot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebcharrot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebcharrot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebcharrot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebcharrot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebcharrot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebcharrot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebcharrot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}