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Reputation: 116000

ADT 22 - missing aapt.exe after upgrading

At work, I need to use maven with Android.

maven uses appt.exe for its own compiling process.

ever since I've upgraded to ADT 22 , maven says it can't find this file, and it's right- the file is gone from "...\platform-tools" .

I've tried to uninstall&re-install the sdk manager and the ADT , but it didn't help.

What can I do to fix this ?

Why is it gone?

EDIT:

For now, I use a workaround of copying (without replacing) all of the old "platform-tools" files into the current one. It seems to work, but maybe it could cause problems.

Upvotes: 23

Views: 18919

Answers (4)

Chris.Jenkins
Chris.Jenkins

Reputation: 13129

It's moved to:

path/to/your/android-sdk/build-tools/17.0.0/...

I'm assuming this it to ad versioning to the build tools.

We need the android-maven-plugin to do a fix! As its looking for the files under platform-tools/... which of course they are not anymore.

Update - Fixed

Update your pom.xml to 3.6.0 (or greater). The android-maven-plugin has been updated to support the new structure.

See 3.6.0 Released

<plugin>
    <groupId>com.jayway.maven.plugins.android.generation2</groupId>
    <artifactId>android-maven-plugin</artifactId>
    <version>3.6.0</version>
    <inherited>true</inherited>
    <configuration>
        <sdk>
            <platform>${android.platform}</platform>
        </sdk>
     </configuration>
</plugin>

Temp Fix (Old - See Fix)

As mentioned by the OP, copy the files from /build-tools/17.0.0/... to /platform-tools until the maven plugin is fixed.

For unix users

cp -r build-tools/17.0.0/* platform-tools/

From your android sdk folder.

Upvotes: 36

durzy
durzy

Reputation: 555

Just make sure you've installed Build-tools. Unfortunately you need to run SDK manager twice. For the first time to upgrade Tools to revision 22, then close it (reload from menu doesn't work) and run again. After refresh you'll see an update of Platform-Tools to revision 17 and new package called Build-tools that contains aapt.

Hope it helps.

Upvotes: 0

avianey
avianey

Reputation: 5843

The correct fix is to clone the android-maven-plugin wich is actually up to date with the latest developper tools but not yet released in central maven repository :

Clone the android-maven-plugin on GitHub and install it in your repo

git clone https://github.com/jayway/maven-android-plugin.git
cd .../maven-android-plugin/
mvn clean install

Then update your pom to use version 3.5.4-SNAPSHOT of the plugin. Everything should work properly !

Upvotes: 8

Crossle Song
Crossle Song

Reputation: 10174

You need add ~/sdk/build-tools to you $PATH

Upvotes: 1

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