Ao usar o plug-in Maven para Android, você perde alguns recursos do Eclipse para Android.
Simplesmente modificando o arquivo “.project” do Eclipse, você recupera todos os recursos ADT enquanto ainda usa o Maven para Builds and Dependency Management.
<projectDescription>
<name>thoughtsonmobile-testapp</name>
<projects/>
<buildSpec>
<!-- added two adt build commands -->
<!-- for full eclipse support -->
<buildCommand>
<name>com.android.ide.eclipse.adt.ResourceManagerBuilder</name>
<arguments></arguments>
</buildCommand>
<buildCommand>
<name>com.android.ide.eclipse.adt.PreCompilerBuilder</name>
<arguments></arguments>
</buildCommand>
<buildCommand>
<name>org.eclipse.jdt.core.javabuilder</name>
</buildCommand>
<buildCommand>
<name>org.maven.ide.eclipse.maven2Builder</name>
</buildCommand>
</buildSpec>
<natures>
<!-- added project nature for eclipse -->
<nature>com.android.ide.eclipse.adt.AndroidNature</nature>
<nature>org.maven.ide.eclipse.maven2Nature</nature>
<nature>org.eclipse.jdt.core.javanature</nature>
</natures>
</projectDescription>o artigo completo do blog (em alemão) pode ser encontrado aqui:
http://www.thoughtsonmobile.com/2012/06/android-apps-mit-maven-bauen.html