cannot find zip-align when publishing app

Question

cannot.find.zip.align=The zipalign tool was not found in the SDK.

Please update to the latest SDK and re-export your application
or run zipalign manually.

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Answer 1

I used the full path of zipalign. For mac, I found the executable file in Finder and clicked on it. Then, to publish my app I ran

/Users/username/development/sdk/tools/zipalign -v 4 HelloWorld-release-unsigned.apk HelloWorld.apk

instead of

zipalign -v 4 HelloWorld-release-unsigned.apk HelloWorld.apk

Answer 2

zipalign was moved to build-tools\19.1.0 and build-tools\20.0.0, I assume you should use one of them in depend of your target SDK

Answer 3

Google fix this mistake with the build tools version: 23.0.3 Now zipalign is packaged properly, and everything works fine.

Answer 4

Steps to fix this,

1. Install latest version of Android SDK Build-Tools
2. Check if zipalign.exe is available in folder android-sdk\build-tools\ e.g. android-sdk\build-tools\21.1.0\
3. In some older version of android you may not find zipalign.exe. Do not panic, check any other verion in which zipalign is available.
4. Open your project.properties file and configure build-tools to point to the in which zipalign.exe is present. e.g. sdk.buildtools=21.1.0.
5. Restart your eclipse and try exporting again. It should work.

Answer 5

Mac / Linux:

This worked for me (you might want to replace 22.0.1 with version of your build tools):

Edit: ~/.bashrc

export ANDROID_HOME=~/Android/Sdk/
export ANDROID_TOOLS=~/Android/Sdk/tools/
export ANDROID_BUILD_TOOLS=~/Android/Sdk/build-tools/22.0.1/
export ANDROID_PLATFORM_TOOLS=~/Android/Sdk/platform-tools/
PATH=$PATH:$ANDROID_HOME:$ANDROID_TOOLS:$ANDROID_PLATFORM_TOOLS:$ANDROID_BUILD_TOOLS

And run:

source ~/.bashrc

or just close terminal and start it again.

Answer 6

I had the same problem. And to fix it, I copy the Zipalign file from sdk/build-tools/android-4.4W folder to sdk/tools/

Edited: Since Google updated SDK for Android, new build-tools does fix this problem. So I encouraged everyone to update to Android SDK Build-tools 20 as suggested by Pang in the post below.