android - How install old ADT13 in Eclipse

Question

We do have lots of problems with our Android Apps when using SDK14/ADT14. Currently we can't build none of our complex apps with lots of libraries and dependant projects (Resources are not updated even after Clean, Refresh, Forced Save, ...). We would like to go back to SDK13/ADT13.

SDK13 is in our backup repository. But we don't have the ADT13 plugins.

How can we direct Eclipse to download the old ADT13 plugins?

Many thanks in advance.

Answer 1

I had to do this recently as well. Fortunately there's a hidden cache of old ADT versions, here's the link for the previous ADT release:

http://dl.google.com/android/ADT-12.0.0.zip

Then inside Eclipse you go to Help -> Install new software -> Add... -> Archive ... -> choose the downloaded zip. FYI: Unfortunately, you can't (or at least, I couldn't) revert to the previous SDK Manager and Tools version so easily (it insisted on getting itself upgraded before downloading the SDKs), I had to use an old copy of the folder I had lying around. Since you have SDK13 in your repo, you should be good to go.