Google Play Android .apk Upload "Failed to run aapt dump badging"

Question

It has been almost a year since I last uploaded an App to the Google Play Developer Console (it is a Cordova App that I have signed and zip aligned); follow the same process I have used successfully in the past I am now getting the following error:

Upload failed Your APK cannot be analyzed using 'aapt dump badging'. Error output: Failed to run aapt dump badging: ERROR: dump failed because assets could not be loaded

What's happening here?

Answer 1

This was a total noob mistake :

Part of the process of preparing the .apk file is to unzip the .apk created by the Cordova build process, then remove the META-INF folder, then rezip and rename back to an .apk. The mistake I made was that, when rezipping, I was zipping the FOLDER, rather than zipping the CONTENTS of the folder.
Another way to say that is that I created the Archive one directory too high in the path.

I'm leaving the question and posting the answer in the hope it will help someone else.