How to specify build order in an Android project using AndroidAnnotations

Question

I use AndroidAnnotations, and since a couple of days, Eclipse sometimes (not always) fails to compile code that uses classes generated by AndroidAnnotations (pre-compile generated code):

My example is:

My project has MainActivity, AndroidAnnotations creates an extended class MainActivity_ under .apt_generated.

Elsewhere in the DetailActivity, my code has a reference to MainActivity_:

My solution so far was to remove the code, compile, then add the code back. However, this is far from elegant. It also is quite annoying and time-consuming.

Am I missing some setting?

Does the order in the "Order and Export" page have any influence? I've tried to move the .apt_generated directory up and down, with no positive effect.

I was thinking that this is the same concept used by Android's resource class R. I never had any issues with code that use resources failing to compile.

Answer 1

As per comments above from piwai the anwser is:

Eclipse 3.5+ - Annotation processor: Generated classes cannot be imported