Android Hello-World compile error: Intellij cannot find aapt

Question

I\'m trying to get set up with an Android development environment using IntelliJ in Ubuntu 12.04. I create an Android Application Module, but when I try to build, I get the

Answer 1

The same problem occurred for me with android-studio. But, this probably applies to the IntelliJ IDE as well.

When checking the file location I saw, however, that aapt was in the expected location.

In my case the issue was that I was running a 64-bit Ubuntu linux system which cannot execute the 32-bit aapt executable.

Installing 32-bit compatibility libraries solved this issue in my case: sudo apt-get install ia32-libs