platform-tools\aapt.exe directory missing in android SDK

Question

I'm trying to get 'hello world' working on the Android SDK with Eclipse. I'm following this tutorial step by step:

http://developer.android.com/resources/tutorials/hello-world.html

but i'm returned the error "Error executing aapt. Please check aapt is present at C:\android-sdk-windows\platform-tools\aapt.exe"

For some reason, the "platform-tools" folder does not exist under my installation. In its place I find "platforms" and "tools". Presumably, my SDK version is different to that used in the tutorial.

I can't work out what i need to change or update. Can someone please point me in the correct direction?

Thank you

Answer 1

Totally agree with izzy, but other times (usually on 64 bit OS machines or with multiple android platforms) when you install the latest SDK version the folder platform-tools had missing the "appt.exe".

To solve this you need to search on *android-sdk\build-tools* folder and subfolders like \build-tools\17.0.0 in my case, and you will find aapt.exe, other necesary files and lib folder, just copy it everything to android-sdk\platform-tools and it will be done.