Parsing Data for android-21 failed on JDK1.8

Question

Been facing this issue on the out of the box standard android 21 application see attached

I am on 10.9.5 Mac OS XI am currently on JDK 1.8 see

/usr/libexec/java_home
/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0_45.jdk/Contents/Home

In eclipse it shows the following:

I have tried switching the JDK versions and also installing/uninstalling eclipse, SDK and SDK tools.

Everything works fine in Android studio but not eclipse. unfortunately I have to get it to work on Eclipse.

Would appreciate any pointers you may have on the issue!

Answer 1

You will need to install JDK version 1.7. Android doesn't support JDK v1.8 yet. You can get the latest JDK v1.7 from here .

Also, when you update your Android SDK, you must also update your Android Development Tools (ADT) for Eclipse at the same time. If you don't, you'll get all sorts of errors.

UPDATE: As of April 27 2015, Mac® OS X® version 10.9.5 and JDK version 1.8 are not yet supported by Android SDK. See here for more info.