Android Packaging Problem: resources.ap_ does not

Question

I am trying to fix a problem in Eclipse for like 3 hours and I haven't made any progress. Tomorrow is the customer coming to look at my app, and I have no time left. This is really frustrating!

This morning when I was coding and I wanted to run my app on my device Eclipse crashed all of a sudden. 'aapt.exe has stopped working'

After this Eclipse wasn't starting anymore. It froze at the splash image.

I looked on the internet and tried different solutions like going back to Java SE 6 update 20, changing .ini file etc. in the end reinstalling Eclipse did the job.

Shortly after that the 'aapt.exe has stopped working' returned. I found a solution by changing my projects target. 1.5, 1.6, 2.2 doesn't matter, as long as it's different than the one before.

Now I get the Error generating final archive: java.io.FileNotFoundException: C:\xxx\bin\resources.ap_ does not exist error.

I tried clean but that doesn't work. Deleting and automatically regenarting R.java also didn't work.

I ran the same code in Netbeans with the Android plugin and there it gives me the 'aapt.exe has stopped working' again :(

Please guys, how can I fix this?

Edit:

I think I may have found the reason. These are the error lines in the console:

org.xmlpull.v1.XmlPullParserException: Binary XML file line #3: <bitmap> requires a valid src attribute
at android.graphics.drawable.BitmapDrawable.inflate(BitmapDrawable.java:341)
at android.graphics.drawable.Drawable.createFromXmlInner(Drawable.java:779)
at android.graphics.drawable.Drawable.createFromXml(Drawable.java:720)
at com.android.layoutlib.bridge.ResourceHelper.getDrawable(ResourceHelper.java:150)
at com.android.layoutlib.bridge.BridgeTypedArray.getDrawable(BridgeTypedArray.java:668)
at android.view.View.<init>(View.java:1846)
at android.view.View.<init>(View.java:1795)
at android.view.ViewGroup.<init>(ViewGroup.java:282)    
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source)
at org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.Main.invokeFramework(Main.java:619)
at org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.Main.basicRun(Main.java:574)
at org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.Main.run(Main.java:1407)
at org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.Main.main(Main.java:1383)
[2011-01-17 16:37:20 - gegevens.xml] Unable to resolve drawable "com.android.layoutlib.utils.ResourceValue@267e33de" in attribute "background"

The file it's talking about is 'bg.png'. It's a small png file which I repeat in a .xml file.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<bitmap xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:src="@drawable/bg" android:tileMode="repeat" />

This file has worked from the first time without any problems. I deleted it from the drawable folder, waited for an error message, and then added it back. The red x next to the foldername got away, but still nothing different...

Answer 1

Above solution didn't worked for me.

The way I did that is updating not only ADT but SDK as well. To do that just go to Android SDK Manager and just download updates.

IT WORKS!

Answer 2

Try running clean, but also uncheck build automatically and click "build project" under the "Project" menu. Once you build manually, you can re-check the "build automatically".

I would also shutdown eclispe, and then kill adb

> adb kill-server

Answer 3

I just ran into this same problem after importing my project from another machine, but didn't have any errors in the console like the OP. I unchecked Project->Build Automatically and then did Project->Clean and this solved my problem. I was actually missing several files in the bin/ directory for my project and this fixed them all.

Answer 4

Sometimes this error happens when you create ninepatch with wrong black dots/lines. For example right and bottom lines must be solid with no dashes or empty regions.

Answer 5

In my case, it was the file add-icon.175x175-75.png (valid file name, but invalid resource name) copied into res/drawable by mistake. After removing this file, Eclipse did (in April 2015) a few successful builds with incorrect sources, and only then began to behave sensibly, showing me missing resources and malformed XML (I changed the layout).

Answer 6

I think this error can come up for a variety of reasons. The following solution is only known to be specific to the same error message appearing when using ADT 14 (released yesterday) with build output set to Verbose:

I ran into the same error using Eclipse 3.7 (Indigo) after upgrading to ADT 14 and SDK 14 on all projects including newly created ones. I found a workaround someone posted on the ADT bug tracker, which is basically to switch Eclipse Settings->Android->Build->Build Output from "Verbose" to "Normal". The post is here.