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Eclipse and Android SDK issue "aapt.exe has stopped"

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 project related, Since i've tried multiple projects, it seems to happen with any workspace in Eclipse as well. New project or old project it just keeps failing when building and running my application.

I'm using the latest JDK-6 with the latest Android SDK 22.0.1, with Build Tools and Platform tools.

Deleting the entire SDK and Eclipse and unziping and resetting up doesnt seem to resolve it either.

Any ideas?

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Jaison Brooks Avatar asked May 30 '13 05:05

Jaison Brooks


5 Answers

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

<item name="android:id">@+id/calender</item>
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somish Avatar answered Oct 13 '22 13:10

somish


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.

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Vivek Giri Avatar answered Oct 13 '22 14:10

Vivek Giri


This can also happen if you have an incorrect option in an item. Example:

<item
    android:id="@+id/menu_dashboard_add_group"
    android:icon="@android:drawable/btn_plus"
    android:title="Add group"
    android:showAsAction="true">

Note the true that is invalid for android:showAsAction

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Kevin McCarpenter Avatar answered Oct 13 '22 14:10

Kevin McCarpenter


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

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Anfet Avatar answered Oct 13 '22 13:10

Anfet


Apparently it seems that the only thing that worked for me was writing back the resourse <string name="action_settings">Settings</string> after which the problem appeared. Actually I erased it in the first place because it was not used througout my open project...

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viky_manoli Avatar answered Oct 13 '22 13:10

viky_manoli