Could not find tool aapt. Please provide proper Android SDK directory path as configuration parameter

Question

I am trying to build a android project using maven. But when I run : mvn clean install I get the following error:

Execution default-generate-sources of goal com.jay

Answer 1

In the last release of android sdk directory structure has changed. Build tools like aapt or dex has been moved from platform-tools to build-tools directory. Support for new directory structure was added in maven-android-plugin version 3.6.0 but you use version 3.4.1. Changing plugin version to 3.6.0 in pom.xml must help. Here is snippet from my pom.xml:

        
            com.jayway.maven.plugins.android.generation2
            android-maven-plugin
            3.6.0
            
                src/main/other/AndroidManifest.xml
                src/main/resources
                src/main/java
                
                    17
                    /opt/android-sdk/
                
                
                    true
                
            
            true