title: error: androidmanifest.xml file missing --> What am i missing?
body: <p>Hi I am completely new to Android programming and the question I am asking might be something very simple, but I do not have any idea about how to make it work, so kindly bear with me.</p>
  
  <p>I installed android-sdk and related tools from the <a href="http://developer.android.com/training/basics/firstapp/creating-project.html">Android developer site</a>. I followed their instructions to create a HelloWorld app, but I am getting some errors which I don't understand.</p>
  
  <p>The file MainActivity.java is an auto generated file and I keep getting errors in this file in these places:</p>
  
  <pre><code>@Override
  public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.activity_main); // error in activity_main
  }
  
  @Override
  public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
    getMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.activity_main, menu); // error in activity_main
     return true;
   }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>So I went and tried to look through the generated class file for layout.class and found there is no variable called activity_main there.</p>
  
  <p>Can anyone kindly suggest what to do here? Any help will be deeply appreciated.</p>
  
  <p>The directory structure shows me that I do have the AndroidManifest.xml.</p>
  
  <p>When I try to run the app, I get this specific error:</p>
  
  <pre><code>     AndroidManifest.xml file missing!
       Unknown Android Packaging Problem
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>These are some of the errors that i am getting when trying to get it running :</p>
  
  <pre><code>        10-10 23:31:11.305: E/Trace(946): error opening trace file: No such file or directory (2)
          10-10 23:31:11.955: E/AndroidRuntime(946): FATAL EXCEPTION: main
          10-10 23:31:11.955: E/AndroidRuntime(946): android.content.res.Resources$NotFoundException: Resource ID #0x2
          10-10 23:31:11.955: E/AndroidRuntime(946):  at android.content.res.Resources.getValue(Resources.java:1013)
          10-10 23:31:11.955: E/AndroidRuntime(946):  at android.content.res.Resources.loadXmlResourceParser(Resources.java:2098)
          10-10 23:31:11.955: E/AndroidRuntime(946):  at android.content.res.Resources.getLayout(Resources.java:852)
          10-10 23:31:11.955: E/AndroidRuntime(946):  at android.view.MenuInflater.inflate(MenuInflater.java:107)
          10-10 23:31:11.955: E/AndroidRuntime(946):  at com.example.myfirstapp.MainActivity.onCreateOptionsMenu(MainActivity.java:18)
          10-10 23:31:11.955: E/AndroidRuntime(946):  at android.app.Activity.onCreatePanelMenu(Activity.java:2476)
          10-10 23:31:11.955: E/AndroidRuntime(946):  at com.android.internal.policy.impl.PhoneWindow.preparePanel(PhoneWindow.java:393)
          10-10 23:31:11.955: E/AndroidRuntime(946):  at com.android.internal.policy.impl.PhoneWindow.invalidatePanelMenu(PhoneWindow.java:747)
          10-10 23:31:11.955: E/AndroidRuntime(946):  at com.android.internal.policy.impl.PhoneWindow$1.run(PhoneWindow.java:2913)
          10-10 23:31:11.955: E/AndroidRuntime(946):  at android.os.Handler.handleCallback(Handler.java:615)
          10-10 23:31:11.955: E/AndroidRuntime(946):  at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:92)
          10-10 23:31:11.955: E/AndroidRuntime(946):  at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:137)
          10-10 23:31:11.955: E/AndroidRuntime(946):  at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:4745)
          10-10 23:31:11.955: E/AndroidRuntime(946):  at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
          10-10 23:31:11.955: E/AndroidRuntime(946):  at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:511)
          10-10 23:31:11.955: E/AndroidRuntime(946):  at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:786)
          10-10 23:31:11.955: E/AndroidRuntime(946):  at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:553)
          10-10 23:31:11.955: E/AndroidRuntime(946):  at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)
  </code></pre>