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

Remove id from style like here @+id then build again you get success...

<item name="android:id">@+id/calender</item>

Answer 2

Not sure but please try to use the Android SDK Build-Tools v18.1.1 instead of 19.0.1

It might be the case that you have error in your resource files, the v19 build-tools won't report the error but keep failing to compile the R.

Please read more detail in the 2nd comment of the question below. I also wrote the some steps I went through in the first reply. hope this will help solving your problem.

'aapt' error. Pre Compiler Build aborted

Answer 3

Check if you have any string values with html codes such as non-breaking-space ( ) Remove them and clean the project. It should work.

Ram

Answer 4

Happens when you don't put @+id/ in menus/layout xml files.

Answer 5

it seems you were missing some entries in strings.xml

in my case I was deleting <string name="action_settings">Settings</string>

thinking it was not used by the project and placing it back solved the issue. You can search for same or similar type of tag in you project.

Answer 6

For me, this happened when I included a ” or ' character. I'd replaced the apostrophe with ', but aapt still wanted the prefixing backslash.