Could not find com.android.tools.build:aapt2:3.2.0

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Arunabh Das picture Arunabh Das · May 10, 2018 · Viewed 91.3k times · Source

AndroidStudio3.2 Canary14 fails clean-and-rebuild with the following error

Could not find com.android.tools.build:aapt2:3.2.0-alpha14-4748712.
Searched in the following locations:
    file:~/Library/Android/sdk/extras/m2repository/com/android/tools/build/aapt2/3.2.0-alpha14-4748712/aapt2-3.2.0-alpha14-4748712.pom
    file:~/Library/Android/sdk/extras/m2repository/com/android/tools/build/aapt2/3.2.0-alpha14-4748712/aapt2-3.2.0-alpha14-4748712-osx.jar
    file:~/Library/Android/sdk/extras/google/m2repository/com/android/tools/build/aapt2/3.2.0-alpha14-4748712/aapt2-3.2.0-alpha14-4748712.pom
    file:~/Library/Android/sdk/extras/google/m2repository/com/android/tools/build/aapt2/3.2.0-alpha14-4748712/aapt2-3.2.0-alpha14-4748712-osx.jar
    file:~/Library/Android/sdk/extras/android/m2repository/com/android/tools/build/aapt2/3.2.0-alpha14-4748712/aapt2-3.2.0-alpha14-4748712.pom
    file:~/Library/Android/sdk/extras/android/m2repository/com/android/tools/build/aapt2/3.2.0-alpha14-4748712/aapt2-3.2.0-alpha14-4748712-osx.jar
    https://jcenter.bintray.com/com/android/tools/build/aapt2/3.2.0-alpha14-4748712/aapt2-3.2.0-alpha14-4748712.pom
    https://jcenter.bintray.com/com/android/tools/build/aapt2/3.2.0-alpha14-4748712/aapt2-3.2.0-alpha14-4748712-osx.jar
Required by:
    project :app

Answer

Izabela Orlowska picture Izabela Orlowska · May 11, 2018

Beginning with Android Studio 3.2 Canary 11, the source for AAPT2 (Android Asset Packaging Tool 2) is Google's Maven repository.

To use AAPT2, make sure that you have a google() dependency in your build.gradle file, as shown here:

buildscript {
  repositories {
      google() // here
      jcenter()
  }
  dependencies {
      classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:3.2.0-alpha12'
  }
} 
allprojects {
  repositories {
      google() // and here
      jcenter()
  }
}

The new version of AAPT2 fixes many issues, including improved handling of non-ASCII characters on Windows.

Adding the repositories in the buildscript is not sufficient, you need to add it also in allprojects.

Source: https://developer.android.com/studio/releases/#aapt2_gmaven

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