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do doan
do doan

Reputation: 91

Can't build an android app bundle using bundletool from the command line

I'm trying to build android app bundle from the command line using bundletool following the instruction described in https://developer.android.com/studio/build/building-cmdline#bundletool-build

A simple android project that created basically from Android Studio is used to investigating which one compiled successfully on Android Studio.

The step to have compiled resources is ok, but it's failed on link step with aapt2. Tested with aapt2-3.4.0-5326820-windows

The command:

set ANDROID_TOOL=%ANDROID_SDK%/platforms/android-26/android.jar
%AAPT2% link --proto-format -o output.apk -I %ANDROID_TOOL% --manifest %CURRENT_DIR%/app/src/main/AndroidManifest.xml -R @compiled_resources.txt --auto-add-overlay -v

compiled_resources.txt is containing the list of .flat compiled resources that I processed before.

The error:

error: resource style/Theme.AppCompat.Light.DarkActionBar (aka com.example.doandominh.simpleaab:style/Theme.AppCompat.Light.DarkActionBar) not found.
I:\RnD\AAB\SimpleAAB\\app\src\main\res\values\styles.xml:6: error: style attribute 'attr/colorPrimary (aka com.example.doandominh.simpleaab:attr/colorPrimary)' not found.
I:\RnD\AAB\SimpleAAB\\app\src\main\res\values\styles.xml:7: error: style attribute 'attr/colorPrimaryDark (aka com.example.doandominh.simpleaab:attr/colorPrimaryDark)' not found.
I:\RnD\AAB\SimpleAAB\\app\src\main\res\values\styles.xml:8: error: style attribute 'attr/colorAccent (aka com.example.doandominh.simpleaab:attr/colorAccent)' not found.
error: failed linking references.

I thought it's depending to something like 'com.android.support:appcompat-v7:26.1.0' but I don't know how to add them to aapt2 link parameters.

Does anyone meet this problem before? Any comment is highly appreciated.

Upvotes: 3

Views: 1025

Answers (1)

Izabela Orlowska
Izabela Orlowska

Reputation: 7532

tldr: You also need to compile AppCompat resources since you're building all of this by hand, and pass them to link the same way you do with your local resources (the order matters to keep the correct overlays/overrides).

The way the Android Gradle Plugin handles resources in an app level is:

  • merge all the resources (local app, local libraries, remote libraries, extra resource source-sets etc)
  • compile everything using 'aapt2 compile' (with or without PNG crunching)
  • link everything into an APK

Upvotes: 1

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