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

Answer 2

I ran these three commands and my problem was resolved

mklink "%ANDROID_HOME%\platform-tools\aapt.exe" "%ANDROID_HOME%\build-tools\17.0.0\aapt.exe"

mklink /D "%ANDROID_HOME%\platform-tools\lib" "%ANDROID_HOME%\build-tools\17.0.0\lib"

mklink "%ANDROID_HOME%\platforms\android-17\tools" "%ANDROID_HOME%\build-tools\17.0.0\aidl.exe"

If you haven't set ANDROID_HOME Environmental variable the replace %ANDROID_HOME% with the path to your android SDK e.g. C:\Android\android-sdk

Answer 3

I also noticed it.

ADT has been updated and they added this new build-tools where they moved everything. Intellijidea is not updating paths so it's searching aapt in the old path.

I don't know how to solve it, so let me know if you find a solution...

UPDATE:

I think that you have only 2 options:

1) Use Android Build studio: http://developer.android.com/sdk/installing/studio.html 2) Copy (this is dirty but works) all content from build-tools/17.0.0/ to platform-tools/ and it will build

Answer 4

Thanks for the tip! On a mac running the Android 4.2.2 SDK, this worked great. You'll just need to update your paths accordingly. E.g.

ln -s ../build-tools/android-4.2.2/lib lib

ln -s ../build-tools/android-4.2.2/aapt aapt

Answer 5

To complain to Jetbrains, go here: http://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEA-107311

I reckon more votes will be a faster fix.

Answer 6

On Mac OS you need to

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