error message: sdk/platforms/android-8/tools/aapt": java.io.IOException: error=2, No such file or directory
solve:
The problem seemed to be that the Android executables requires 32 bit libraries that are not available in Ubuntu 64 by default. To solve this I downloaded the execellent getlibs application which is a utility for automatically resolving dependencies for 32-bit programs on a 64 bit system. So I went into platforms/android-1.6/tools
in the Android SDK installation folder and executed:
getlibs aapt
which installed and upgraded the following libraries:
The following NEW packages will be installed:
ia32-libs lib32asound2 lib32gcc1 lib32ncurses5 lib32stdc++6 lib32z1
libc6-i386
The following packages will be upgraded:
libc6 libc6-dev
After this was done I went back into Eclipse, did a project clean and refresh and after that I was able to start the Android emulator successfully. Hopefully this may help someone who's in the same situation.
REF:http://blog.jayway.com/2009/10/21/getting-android-sdk-working-on-ubuntu-64/