Where's my \sdk\extras\android\m2repository\ folder in Eclipse's Android SDK folder structure?

Question

I have Android Support Library 21.0.1 and can update to 21.0.2 (though for fear of breaking things I'm not going to just yet - as the past has shown it's an enormous pain to "down"date, once you've updated something in Eclipse).

I don't have this m2repository folder that everyone keeps referring to , which I need to manually add the support-v7 compatability library in order to use a RecyclerView in my project.

I'm using a target of Android 5.0 (API 21) Rev 1, SDK Tools 23.0.5, Platform-tools 21, Build-tools 20 . All the latest according to Eclipse and no folder is present.. How do I use a RecyclerView without having this specific v7 library available? I'm already using app-compat libraries v4 and v7 but not from this folder location..

Side question: Do libraries inherit other libraries? ie if I add "MyLibrary" which uses Facebook-SDK which uses app-compat-v4 is that the same as me simply using app-compat-v4 directly from my own Package?

Thank you in advance!

Answer 1

I don't have this m2repository folder that everyone keeps referring to

That would be installed via the "Android Repository" in the SDK Manager.

All the latest according to Eclipse and no folder is present

Unless you're using Maven with Eclipse, m2repository is not something you will use with Eclipse.

How do I use a RecyclerView without having this specific v7 library available?

By using the library project, just as you did appcompat-v7 . You will find a recyclerview/ directory as a peer of appcompat , in the extras/android/support/v7/ directory within your Android SDK installation.

ie if I add "MyLibrary" which uses Facebook-SDK which uses app-compat-v4 is that the same as me simply using app-compat-v4 directly from my own Package?

For Eclipse users, android-support-v4.jar is a JAR. If Facebook's SDK is a library project, and it has android-support-v4.jar in libs/ , and your app depends upon Facebook's library project, you will get android-support-v4.jar added to your project as well. Basically, everything in the library project is added to your app's project.