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

Goodlife once again. Just incase of such an error clean project and you are good to go.

Answer 2

It appears that the latest update to the r22 SDK release moved aapt and the lib jar from the platform-tools to the build-tools directory. While we wait for JetBrains to release an update, here's a quick fix using a couple of symbolic links:

From your AndroidSDK/platform-tools directory, run the following:

ln -s ../build-tools/17.0.0/aapt aapt
ln -s ../build-tools/17.0.0/lib lib

...and IntelliJ should be able to compile as normal.

Answer 3

Clone the android-maven-plugin on GitHub and install it in your repo

git clone https://github.com/jayway/maven-android-plugin.git
cd .../maven-android-plugin/
mvn clean install

Then update your pom to use version 3.5.4-SNAPSHOT of the plugin. Everything should work properly !

Answer 4

update your IntelliJ to 12.1.4 by using beta releases as the update channel

Answer 5

i solve it with this to line commands

ln -s ~/Programs/android-sdk-linux/build-tools/17.0.0/aapt ~/Programs/android-sdk-linux/platform-tools/aapt
ln -s ~/Programs/android-sdk-linux/build-tools/17.0.0/lib ~/Programs/android-sdk-linux/platform-tools/lib

Answer 6

In Windows it is enough to copy only aapt.exe, lib\dx.jar and dx.bat

from build-tools\android-4.2.2

to

platform-tools