Eclipse and Android SDK issue “aapt.exe has stopped”

Question

I\'m having an issue on my Windows 7 64-bit machine with aapt.exe. It is throwing the following error:

aapt.exe has stopped working

Its not proj

Answer 1

For me it was the buildToolsVersion '21.0.0' the old one buildToolsVersion '20.0.0' works for me but the newer one crashes the aapt.exe.

Answer 2

Donot forget + sign for id attributes in menu.xml files

<item android:id="@id/action_download_time"

vs

<item android:id="@+id/action_download_time"

Answer 3

It also happend for me IF ASSETS FOLDER exist any file without resolution

for examle: if ASSETS FOLDER exist any file

file:///android_asset/html/qwwww

[result] BUG! “aapt.exe has stopped”

To solve it all files should have a resolution

file:///android_asset/html/qwwww.css

Answer 4

This can also happen if you have an incorrect option in an item. Example:

<item
    android:id="@+id/menu_dashboard_add_group"
    android:icon="@android:drawable/btn_plus"
    android:title="Add group"
    android:showAsAction="true">

Note the true that is invalid for android:showAsAction

Answer 5

Apparently it seems that the only thing that worked for me was writing back the resourse <string name="action_settings">Settings</string> after which the problem appeared. Actually I erased it in the first place because it was not used througout my open project...

Answer 6

For me it happend after creating a new activity by

your_package-Right-Click-> Create a new-> "Android Activity"->Fill fields->"Done"

I solved it by reverting to previous version of my app