I accidentally clicked on "Add Native Support" inside "Android Tools"... That messed up all the jni files of my project. How do I undo that ? How to remove Native support from my Android Project ?
5 Answers
The only way I could find to reliably removed the C nature from the project was by hand editing Eclipse's .project
file for the project.
Close the Eclipse project (e.g. by quitting Eclipse).
Open the
.project
file in a text or xml editor. There will be at least 2<buildCommand>
nodes that need to be removed. Remove the<buildCommand>
node with nameorg.eclipse.cdt.managedbuilder.core.genmakebuilder
and all its children, and the<buildCommand>
node with nameorg.eclipse.cdt.managedbuilder.core.ScannerConfigBuilder
and its children. Finally, remove the lines:<nature>org.eclipse.cdt.core.cnature</nature>
<nature>org.eclipse.cdt.core.ccnature</nature>
<nature>org.eclipse.cdt.managedbuilder.core.managedBuildNature</nature>
<nature>org.eclipse.cdt.managedbuilder.core.ScannerConfigNature</nature>
Completely remove the
.cproject
file.

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5it is sometimes necessary (as of eclipse Kepler at least) to delete the project reference from your workspace (not contents on disk) and then re-import it after following the above steps. See http://pilcrowpipe.blogspot.com/2011/12/removing-native-support-from-android.html – CCJ May 27 '14 at 21:59
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It worked for me, Thank you. I've removed the build comands from eclipse, and now I don't see C/C++ in the properties of my project. – androidevil May 29 '14 at 15:20
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It worked for me too. But I needed to delete project from eclipse and re-import it again. – Sergio Viudes Jul 22 '14 at 07:32
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also delete .externalToolBuilders from your project root folder if exist – CRUSADER Mar 12 '15 at 11:26
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The steps above were helpful but after following them I could no longer build my app. I was getting a fairly obtuse error message: make: *** [clean-installed-binaries] Error 127. Searching for this error message did not provide any indication of the specific problem or a solution. The only solution I found was to remove the project and then re-add it and then the problem magically went away. – Tary Jul 30 '15 at 15:13
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Done steps suggested by bleater and then @CCJ, solve my issue. – Smeet Dec 25 '15 at 06:00
With the new ADT 20, if the project has a jni folder or/and an Android.mk file the c++ nature is added by the plugin by default,
In general to remove the C++ nature, you just need to delete the .cproject file in the project tree, remove and re-import project in the workspace and you're good to go (c++ project nature removed).
But I think you should just add the macro definitions and build imports and eclipse will work just fine. If you go to
Project properties->C/C++ general->Paths and symbols
and there you add the path to the NDK includes for the corresponding platform (something like)
{NDK_PATH}/platforms/android-9/arch-arm/usr/include
and all your build script added imports as well as any build script declared macros eclipse will handle the jni stuff just fine.

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Open up your .project
file in a text editor and just delete the entries for CDT and C nature. They are easily distinguished from those of JDT. I have done this several times and it's nothing dangerous but make a backup copy for safety.
EDIT: It might be possible also with Project Properties -> Builders -> Remove CDT Builder but never tried it.

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I had to delete the project and then import it into the workspace before Eclipse was happy. – slott Nov 04 '14 at 08:53
Do following steps, Hope it can help you.
After Android tools ->Add native support. It will gen cpp file on jni folder. And eclipse can not resolved it. This is a fixing way.
Step 1
Right Click PJ -> add New Folder -> In dialog add new folder, click Advanced>> check Linked Folder -> Borrow to [{NDK_PATH}/platforms/android-21/arch-arm/usr/include ] ( i used android -21, you can change it) (1)--> OK
Step 2
Right click PJ -> Properties -> C/CC general ->Paths and Symbols ->Include tab -> Add ->Work Space -> select include folder (1) in your project -> OK . Refresh and rebuild.

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