This caused a good 30 mins head scratching. When creating a new Android project in Eclipse it is not possible to progress past the initial screen as it complains “an SDK target must be specified”. In the window you will see “Build Target” but no box listing your installed Android Versions. The area of the window normally looks something like this.
But for unlucky you, it looks like this.
Providing you know Eclipse is aware of where your SDKs live, the solution is simply to change the font size in eclipse.
Window / Preferences / General / Appearance / Colours and Fonts
Change “Text Font” and “Dialog Font” to a smaller value, dropping from 10 to 8 helped me.
Now for the rant: The “New Android Test Project” dialogue does not suffer this problem, because there aren’t as many UI elements on screen. It wouldn’t surprise me if this is a simple code error somewhere, exacerbated by the fact that most developers aren’t working on “funny” resolutions, such as my widescreen 13″ XPS M1210 Laptop.
Simply put you’d hope the application would ensure all UI components were properly displayed. At the end of the day such schoolboy-error fiddly problems are what put people off IT and software development. There seem to be a fair few people moaning about this one, so whilst buuuuuuuuugs happen I hope someone somewhere is suitably embarrassed… 
I ran into this problem running Ubuntu and Eclipse on an Acer AO751h netbook, which has 1366×768 screen resolution. Quite annoying, thank you for posting the fix. It would have taken me a long time (if ever) to get around to trying to shrink font sizes. Though at that screen size, 8 is really small, and my code editor then appears at 8. So I’ll try 9 maybe. Anyway, thanks again.
Hi Will,
Thank you very much for publishing this. It was driving me crazy.
Best,
Dan
Thank You,
I would never have even considered changing the text size, I too have a 1366X768 laptop and changing the text size would never have occurred to me. Is it really that hard to include scroll bars in the window, I understand trying to reduce scrolling, but I’d much rather scroll down an inch than adjust the font all of the time.
Hello,
Thanks for your post, however changing the font it’s still not enough for me :/
I have an Asus eeePC where the maximum resolution is 1024×600 and even with font sizer of 5 I can’t see the options :/
Regards,
Jorge
Thanks for your help.
I just burned a bunch of time trying to figure this out too. Once I stumbled on your solution, I gave it a try. It didn’t work either on my EeePC, but what did work was changing my screen size in my Windows settings to a larger screen size. Now it works…
Of course, I have to scroll around on my screen to see the whole thing, but the problem is solved.
I second your rant.
I have the same problem, I reduced the font size to 8 but the problem is still unresolved and its driving me crazy too. Really don’t know what to do now?
*confuse*
Thanks a lot the font thing solved my problem
I reduced the font size to 3
it worked then 
thank u so much i was driving me crazy
I had to change my Dialog Font to size 4 – CRAZY – on my Dell Mini
I had the same issue on a net-book running Ubuntu and reducing font size still didn’t allow me to create a new project. The work around I use is screen rotation, I go to my display setting and rotate the screen create the new project and then rotate back again.
Hope that helps
Huge THANKS!
And I found ANOTHER METHOD to kill this annoying thing: RESIZE the dialog.
I just dragged the dialog to the buttom of screen and then dragged the upper edge to the top, so the height went beyond 1000 pixels and, hehe, all things were uncovered.
Thanks again!
Resizing did the trick for me on my netbook! Thx for the tip John.
This is not the only bug in android eclipse plugin, but one of the most annoying one! Sometimes it seems to me that there aren’t any testers at google.