aapt

I'm having lots of problems with Gradle and Android Studio. Making changes in any resource in the project can randomly give an exception during compilation, this is what i see in Android Studio: Gradle: Error while executing aapt command Gradle: Execution failed for task ':App Code:processReleaseResources'. And this is what i see executing Gradle manually: "/Applications/Android Studio.app/sdk/tools/templates/gradle/wrapper/gradlew" asD Relying on packaging to define the extension of the main artifact has been deprecated and is scheduled to be removed in Gradle 2.0 :App Code:preBuild UP-TO

What does AAPT (Android Asset Packaging Tool) mean? How does it work? Can I ship the .so file of one application in the APK file of another application using AAPT? MarcS AAPT allows you to view, create, and update ZIP-compatible archives (ZIP, JAR, and APK). It can also compile resources into binary assets. It is the base builder for Android applications. Of course you can ship .so files from an application, but if you want to use it, you will need reverse engineering plugins and these are not very recommended because of the complexity. I don't know anyone for Android, but there are a bunch of

Whenever I try to add a 9-patch image to the \drawable folder in my project, I get the same error: ERROR: 9-patch image C:\...\res\drawable\appwidget.9.png malformed. Frame pixels must be either solid or transparent (not intermediate alphas). Found at pixel #3 along top edge. Failure processing PNG image C:\...\res\drawable\appwidget.9.png The weird thing in this example is that I've got this image from the "android-g1-icon" images found in the SDK resources, so it is supposed to be OK. The same happened with any 9-patch image I've tried so far. What could be wrong? I have encountered with

I am playing around with Instant Apps for Android.I installed all the correct packages and tired to create new Application with Instant App support (checked the box for Instant App when crating new application). The problem is that I always run into a problem with compile tools. Does anybody else have this problem and was able to find any workaround. My environment: Android Studio 3.0 Canary 1 Compile SDK: 25 Build Tools: "26.0.0 rc2" Gradle plugin:3.0.0-alpha1 Gradle: tried both gradle-4.0-milestone1 and 2 Java 1.8/1.7 OS: tried both Windows 10 and Linux Ubuntu 16.4 LTS The error: Error: java

I have a little problem. The Problem: I am trying to build a gradle of my Android Project on Jenkins and now I am standing on this problem i can't resolve. During the Building I have this Error message: :Client:mergeDebugResources /var/lib/jenkins/workspace/LMA-Client/Client/build/exploded-aar/com.google.android.gms/play-services/3.1.59/res/drawable-hdpi/common_signin_btn_text_focus_light.9.png: Error: Cannot run program "/opt/android-sdk/build-tools/19.0.1/aapt": java.io.IOException: error=2, No such file or directory :Client:mergeDebugResources FAILED You can imagine that this aapt... yep