Amazon Marketplace app rejected for containing Eclipse settings file

Question

I'm currently trying to submit my app to the Amazon Marketplace. Today I received the following email from the App Testing team:

Your recent submission of RSS Alarm is pending due to the following reason(s):

We are having trouble publishing your app to test. Your APK appears to have the following file included in it: .settings/org.eclipse.core.resources.prefs Please remove this file and resubmit your APK.

Please correct the issue(s) we found with your app submission so we may continue working to get it in the Appstore.

Thing is, I can't see how the .settings folder made it into the APK build in the first place. It's not listed in either my Android settings nor my Java build path settings. So where am I going wrong with this?

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Many thanks.

Answer 1

From working in a team environment I've made it a habit of keeping my application source and resources in a separate directory tree from my workspace and project settings. For example:

/home/workspaces/projectname

/home/sources/projectname

I don't know if this is your exact problem but I think it might help keep Eclipse meta-data from being built with your code.

Answer 2

To solve this problem, delete the file named org.eclipse.core.resources.prefs in your project source folder (lib.metadata.plugins\org.eclipse.core.runtime.settings).