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

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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?

When did you begin experiencing this? Have you recently updated anything? — Larry McKenzie, May 30 '13 at 05:38
Just started today, i just updated to the latest version of the Android SDK tools. Rev 22.0.1. http://developer.android.com/tools/sdk/tools-notes.html — Jaison Brooks, May 30 '13 at 05:40
I am sure you have gone through these things but I want to make sure. Is your Android SDK directory properly set? Have you also updated ADT? You said it is not project specific but have you confirmed if this problem persists with a new project and no other project open in your wrokspace? — Larry McKenzie, May 30 '13 at 06:08
@LarryMcKenzie Yes i have confirmed that ADT is the latest version, SDK has been reinstalled and is properly set in Eclipse. I've tried new workspaces and new projects alone and with other's and it keeps happening. Its extremely weird. I cant think of what else to try... — Jaison Brooks, May 30 '13 at 19:05

score 17 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 06 '13 at 10:33

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

<item name="android:id">@+id/calender</item>

answered Aug 06 '13 at 10:33

somish

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Um, so which id are we meant to remove? The `android:id` or the `@+id`? Could you please put what the line should look like after the id is removed? Thanks! – Felix Aug 29 '13 at 01:42
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Anybody know why this issue happens? – deviant Oct 08 '13 at 09:01

score 16 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 01 '13 at 13:00

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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.

answered Dec 01 '13 at 13:00

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+1 This solved my crash problem. Crashed on menu if the string name was mistyped. Did nobody test this code on error conditions? – MZB Mar 06 '14 at 18:21
Pleased to know it helped you. Thanks for voting up – Vivek Giri Mar 07 '14 at 11:48

score 8 · Answer 3 · answered Dec 22 '13 at 07:51

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

score 4 · Answer 4 · answered Nov 27 '13 at 12:41

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

answered Nov 27 '13 at 12:41

Anfet

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score 4 · Answer 5 · answered Jan 28 '14 at 15:44

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...

score 2 · Answer 6 · answered Nov 01 '13 at 00:25

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For me, this happened when I included a ” or ' character. I'd replaced the apostrophe with ', but aapt still wanted the prefixing backslash.

answered Nov 01 '13 at 00:25

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score 2 · Answer 7 · edited May 23 '17 at 10:29

Not sure but please try to use the Android SDK Build-Tools v18.1.1 instead of 19.0.1

It might be the case that you have error in your resource files, the v19 build-tools won't report the error but keep failing to compile the R.

Please read more detail in the 2nd comment of the question below. I also wrote the some steps I went through in the first reply. hope this will help solving your problem.

'aapt' error. Pre Compiler Build aborted

score 2 · Answer 8 · answered Mar 21 '14 at 11:06

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Donot forget + sign for id attributes in menu.xml files

<item android:id="@id/action_download_time"

vs

<item android:id="@+id/action_download_time"

answered Mar 21 '14 at 11:06

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score 2 · Answer 9 · answered May 14 '14 at 09:54

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Check if you have any string values with html codes such as non-breaking-space ( ) Remove them and clean the project. It should work.

Ram

answered May 14 '14 at 09:54

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score 2 · Answer 10 · answered Nov 12 '14 at 09:10

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For me it happend after creating a new activity by

your_package-Right-Click-> Create a new-> "Android Activity"->Fill fields->"Done"

I solved it by reverting to previous version of my app

answered Nov 12 '14 at 09:10

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score 2 · Answer 11 · answered Nov 12 '14 at 09:43

It also happend for me IF ASSETS FOLDER exist any file without resolution

for examle: if ASSETS FOLDER exist any file

file:///android_asset/html/qwwww

[result] BUG! “aapt.exe has stopped”

To solve it all files should have a resolution

file:///android_asset/html/qwwww.css

score 1 · Answer 12 · answered Jul 27 '15 at 18:26

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For me it was the buildToolsVersion '21.0.0' the old one buildToolsVersion '20.0.0' works for me but the newer one crashes the aapt.exe.

answered Jul 27 '15 at 18:26

GuestSolves

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This fixed my issue! – Pangu May 31 '16 at 05:00

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