eclipse is not launching android sdk

Question

Please help. I am facing this issue:

My eclipse no longer launches the android sdk properly and gives the following error message

[2013-10-20 23:08:09 - Android SDK] Error when loading the SDK:

Error: Missing platform-tools Warning: Ignoring platform 'android-18': build.prop is missing.

Answer 1

Go into the Android SDK package downloader and download the build-tools. When the SDK went to API Level 18, they decoupled the build-tools and made them another download.