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I'm building an apk using ant on Linux (not using Eclipse), and I'm trying to find an easy way to switch between compressing assets and not, in order to keep my huge database uncompressed for < 2.3. As per this article: http://ponystyle.com/blog/2010/03/26/dealing-with-asset-compression-in-android-apps/ I see that it's possible to do this by specifying something like aapt -0 db , but I can't find information on how to edit the way ant interacts with aapt. Or do I have to run aapt by itself? What do I do? It's Android's build.xml (you'll find this under your SDK, tools and ant) that executes

I have used aapt p to package resources and generate R.java . But when I upgraded to Android 24, I found aapt2.exe . Should I use aapt2.exe ? How do I use it? I could not find any documentation about it. There are some big differences between how AAPT and AAPT2 work. Compile and link The main idea behind AAPT2, apart from new features, is that it divides the 'package' step into two: 'compile' and 'link'. It improves performance, since if only one file changes, you only need to recompile that one file and link all the intermediate files with the 'link' command. More restrictive AAPT2 tries to

I'm working on some Ant scripts for an Android build system and have come across an element to call aapt. I have seen lots of examples with exec executable="${aapt}" but the ones that come out of the main_rules.xml file use a different format <aapt executable="${aapt}" command="package" debug="${build.packaging.debug}" manifest="AndroidManifest.xml" assets="${asset.absolute.dir}" androidjar="${android.jar}" apkfolder="${out.absolute.dir}" resourcefilename="${resource.package.file.name}" resourcefilter="${aapt.resource.filter}"> <res path="${resource.absolute.dir}" /> <!-- <nocompress /> forces

Android Studio (using SDK 19, 21 or 22) shows an error that Eclipse ADT (using SDK 19) does not: Error:9-patch image D:\Workspaces....\res\drawable-hdpi\btn_bg_common_press.9.png malformed. Error:Frame pixels must be either solid or transparent (not intermediate alphas). - Found at pixel #4 along top edge. Or another error : Error:Ticks in transparent frame must be black or red. both within aapt Error:Error: com.android.ide.common.process.ProcessException: org.gradle.process.internal.ExecException: Process 'command 'E:\Android\sdk-Android-Studio\build-tools\19.1.0\aapt.exe'' finished with non

At work, I need to use maven with Android. maven uses appt.exe for its own compiling process. ever since I've upgraded to ADT 22 , maven says it can't find this file, and it's right- the file is gone from "...\platform-tools" . I've tried to uninstall&re-install the sdk manager and the ADT , but it didn't help. What can I do to fix this ? Why is it gone? EDIT: For now, I use a workaround of copying (without replacing) all of the old "platform-tools" files into the current one. It seems to work, but maybe it could cause problems. It's moved to: path/to/your/android-sdk/build-tools/17.0.0/... I

Hi I am having trouble compiling, I get this error: Gradle: Execution failed for task ':ElectronicComponentInventorySearch:mergeDebugResources'. java.io.IOException: Cannot run program "/opt/android-studio/sdk/build-tools/android- 4.2.2/aapt": error=2, No such file or directory When I use locate: /opt/android-studio/sdk/build-tools/android-4.2.2/aapt Before I tried anything I made sure to chown the whole android-studio directory to my account and set permissions for everything to 775. Whats up? omegacore Aapt is a 32bit application. I am running ubuntu 64bit. I needed some additional libraries

Using adb, how can I find out the which permissions an Android application requires? Because I want to display the permissions of multiple applications on different devices, viewing them in Google Play or Settings > Applications manager requires too much manual work. I just wanted to combine Jason's and Juuso's answers together and notice that the former lists permissions that were granted , while the latter lists permissions that were requested (including ones that were granted). To see only permissions that were granted (but omitting ones that were requested but not granted) use adb shell