Android Maven Could not find tool 'aapt'

Question

i was trying to follow this tutorial:

http://www.gdgankara.org/2012/11/01/step-by-step-android-development-with-maven/

but after setting up the environment,

Answer 1

I also encountered the same problem when using latest ADT from google and trying to compile the bootstrap android platform.

The latest r17 build separate out aapt to build-tools folder. Hence it is maven-android-plugin cannot support it.

See issue discussed here.

Tried and working:

cd $ANDROID_HOME/platform-tools
ln -s ../build-tools/android-4.2.2/aapt aapt
ln -s ../build-tools/android-4.2.2/lib lib
ln -s ../build-tools/android-4.2.2/aidl aidl

Some installations may be structured using the API version:

cd $ANDROID_HOME/platform-tools
ln -s ../build-tools/17.0.0/aapt aapt
ln -s ../build-tools/17.0.0/lib lib
ln -s ../build-tools/17.0.0/aidl aidl

Keep in mind that this is fixed in the latest version (>3.5.3) of the Android Maven Plugin, as other answers point out.

Answer 2

I'm using macOS 10.14 and in my case:

I download Android packaging tool from AAPT and then copied all the files into
$ANDROID_HOME/platforms/$SDK/tools/

DON'T REMIND CHANGE $SDK WITH YOUR REAL NAME SDK FOR INSTANCE android-29

Answer 3

I too had similar problems.

Solved by following steps :

1) Upgrade maven to 3.1.1 2) Use android-maven-plugin 3.6.1 pr greater [I used 3.8.0] 3) Use maven-dependency-plugin 2.8

If you want to build against latest Android SDK [ex : 4.3], follow following additional steps - 4) Install the local copy of android.jar using command mvn install:installFile .. 5) Set 18

Hope this helps.

Answer 4

If you are using Windows, the symbolic linking can be done using mklink command.

D:\>cd "Program Files (x86)\Android\android-sdk"

D:\Program Files (x86)\Android\android-sdk>cd platform-tools

D:\Program Files (x86)\Android\android-sdk\platform-tools>mklink aapt.exe ..\build-tools\17.0.0\aapt.exe
symbolic link created for aapt.exe <<===>> ..\build-tools\17.0.0\aapt.exe

D:\Program Files (x86)\Android\android-sdk\platform-tools>mklink aidl.exe ..\build-tools\17.0.0\aidl.exe
symbolic link created for aidl.exe <<===>> ..\build-tools\17.0.0\aidl.exe

D:\Program Files (x86)\Android\android-sdk\platform-tools>mklink /d lib ..\build-tools\17.0.0\lib
symbolic link created for lib <<===>> ..\build-tools\17.0.0\lib

Answer 5

I get stuck with the same problem. Finally i managed to resolve the issue after two hours. To make it simple and resolve the issue in 5 minutes i listed the steps below

Step 1 - In Eclipse update your Android Maven Plugin to 0.4.3.2013 using the beta release link http://rgladwell.github.io/m2e-android/updates/master/

Step 2

     <plugin>
        <groupId>com.jayway.maven.plugins.android.generation2</groupId>
        <artifactId>android-maven-plugin</artifactId> 
        <version>3.6.1</version>
        <configuration>
            <sdk>
                <platform>17</platform>
            </sdk> 
        </configuration>
    </plugin>

It will solve the following issues

"No Android Platform Version/API Level has been configured"

Could not find tool 'aapt'

Hope it helps

Answer 6

Update:

This has been resolved since Android Maven Plugin v3.6.0. For now you will only need these symlinks if you use IntelliJ v12.x. IntelliJ v13 EAP+ should work out of the box.

Original answer:

This has been fixed and will be released with Android Maven Plugin v3.5.4. See the github pull request:

Upgraded AndroidSdk to use path and platform utilities from sdklib

You can try validating the snapshot build which contains the fix by adding the following to your pom.xml:

<plugin>
    <groupId>com.jayway.maven.plugins.android.generation2</groupId>
    <artifactId>android-maven-plugin</artifactId>
    <version>3.5.4-SNAPSHOT</version>
    ...
</plugin>
...
<pluginRepositories>
  <pluginRepository>
    <id>oss.sonatype.org-jayway-snapshots</id>
    <name>Jayway OpenSource SNAPSHOTs on Sonatype.org</name>
    <url>http://oss.sonatype.org/content/repositories/jayway-snapshots/</url>
    <snapshots>
      <enabled>true</enabled>
    </snapshots>
  </pluginRepository>
</pluginRepositories>

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