How can I enable javadoc for the Android support library?

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I’ve lashed together a project with android-support-v4.jar just in the Android Dependencies part of the package view. I have a class

public class CountriesFragment extends ListFragment {...}

and an import of 

import android.support.v4.app.ListFragment;

up above

I created a file android-support-v4.jar.properties in the libs folder. It contains the lines:

doc=c:\\[path-to-android-sdk]\\docs\\reference
src=C:\\[path-to-android-sdk]\\extras\\android\\support\\v4\\src

Presumably you’ll have to change to un-escaped forward slashes if not using Windows.

Next right-click the project, select refresh, then you’ll get javadoc support. You don’t really need the doc entry–the src entry already contains the javadocs.

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