You can't "do away with it", if you use the new-project or new-activity wizards. Near as I can tell, the templates there want you to use appcompat-v7
, as of v22.6.1.
Your choices are:
Stick with the new-project wizard and rip out the
appcompat-v7
stuff by hand, orCopy or import some other Eclipse project as a starting point, one that does not have
appcompat-v7
in it