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Paul Ngom
Paul Ngom

Reputation: 319

What is the function of aapt.exe in android?

When i list the running processes under windows 7, about 20 aapt.exe processes are showing and they take a lot of memory. This happens when android studio is opened. I am always forced to exit android studio and open it again. How can remedy the situation while leaving android studio running? And what is the function of aapt.exe? I have android studio 1.2.1.1.

Upvotes: 11

Views: 14998

Answers (3)

MTK
MTK

Reputation: 3580

About the second question:

How can remedy the situation while leaving android studio running?

I have also same issue and a lot of aapt.exe wich still running even all emulators and others android development tools are stopped.

Mi solution to stop all them:

Taskkill /T /F /IM aapt.exe

in cmd or a .bat file

Upvotes: 3

Mosaku Abayomi
Mosaku Abayomi

Reputation: 969

aapt.exe is the Android Asset Packaging Tool (aapt). It's designed to take your application resource files, such as the AndroidManifest.xml file and other XML files used for every "Activity" in your Android app, and compile them. An R.java is generated so you can reference your resources from your Java code.

More details here.

Upvotes: 8

siva
siva

Reputation: 1868

It is used for compiling the Android resource files and generate the R.Java file for referring the resource directly into the Java code.

Upvotes: 2

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