Build Errors When Importing Wiktionary

Question

When importing the Wiktionary project into Eclipse, I immediately get error messages related to my strings.xml file. The same errors occur whether I download the project through subversion or from the SDK sample files.

Console errors:

[2010-12-27 15:25:33 - Wiktionary] W/ResourceType( 2752): Bad XML block: header size 62 or total size 0 is larger than data size 0
[2010-12-27 15:25:33 - Wiktionary] C:\Trunk\Wiktionary\res\values\strings.xml:22: error: Multiple substitutions specified in non-positional format; did you mean to add the formatted="false" attribute?
[2010-12-27 15:25:33 - Wiktionary] C:\Trunk\Wiktionary\res\values\strings.xml:22: error: Unexpected end tag string
[2010-12-27 15:25:33 - Wiktionary] C:\Trunk\Wiktionary\res\layout\widget_message.xml:24: error: Error: No resource found that matches the given name (at 'text' with value '@string/widget_loading').
[2010-12-27 15:25:33 - Wiktionary] C:\Trunk\Wiktionary\res\xml\searchable.xml:17: error: Error: No resource found that matches the given name (at 'label' with value '@string/search_label').
[2010-12-27 15:25:33 - Wiktionary] C:\Trunk\Wiktionary\res\xml\searchable.xml:17: error: Error: No resource found that matches the given name (at 'hint' with value '@string/search_hint').
[2010-12-27 15:25:33 - Wiktionary] C:\Trunk\Wiktionary\res\menu\lookup.xml:19: error: Error: No resource found that matches the given name (at 'title' with value '@string/lookup_search').
[2010-12-27 15:25:33 - Wiktionary] C:\Trunk\Wiktionary\res\menu\lookup.xml:24: error: Error: No resource found that matches the given name (at 'title' with value '@string/lookup_random').
[2010-12-27 15:25:33 - Wiktionary] C:\Trunk\Wiktionary\res\menu\lookup.xml:29: error: Error: No resource found that matches the given name (at 'title' with value '@string/lookup_about').

Answer 1

The Android Asset Packaging Tool (aapt) has become very strict in its latest release and is now used for all Android versions. The aapt-error you're getting is generated because it no longer allows non-positional format specifiers.

So you have to make some changes into your C:\Trunk\Wiktionary\res\values\strings.xml file.

Use %% instead of % and then clean and build the project.