Android Hello-World compile error: Intellij cannot find aapt

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jonS90 picture jonS90 · May 16, 2013 · Viewed 49.4k times · Source

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 following error:

android-apt-compiler: Cannot run program "/home/jon/Programs/android-sdk-linux/platform-tools/aapt": java.io.IOException: error=2, No such file or directory

Several hours of scouring the internet hasn't helped.

By the way, I ran locate aapt in the terminal and found that aapt is located at /home/jon/Programs/android-sdk-linux/build-tools/17.0.0/aapt

Answer

Simon Guest picture Simon Guest · May 16, 2013

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.

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