Wednesday, December 18, 2013

Errors running builder Android Resource Manager error when creating a new Android project in Eclipse

Recently, I had updated my Android SDK Manager but had not updated my Eclipse Android plugins.  This lead to a strange error when I tried to create a new Android project.


Errors occurred during the build.Errors running builder 'Android Resource Manager' on project *.java.lang.NullPointerException


There were many solutions in stackoverflow.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/20043521/errors-running-builder-android-resource-manager-on-adt
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18096315/mac-error-create-android-project-errors-running-builder-android-resource-man

But none of these worked for me.

To solve this, I tried updating my Eclipse Android plugins. And immediately, the error was gone and I could create a new project without any errors.


  1. In Eclipse, Help menu -> Check for Updates
  2. Select all Android related plugins (most probably will have the word Android in its name)
  3. Click Next, Accept the agreement page then proceed to install the plugin.