Fix your Android IDE for SDK 17 and the Android Maven Plugin < 3.5.4

Von Carsten

26. Mai 2013

Recently I started working on an Android App and after some initial problems with the new Android Studio based on IntelliJ I am back on a regular maven build process. But when setting up my project with the current version of the “old” Android IDE based on Eclipse and the Maven Android Plugin I stumbled upon some errors when trying to build the project:

Failed to execute goal com.jayway.maven.plugins.android.generation2:android-maven-plugin:3.1.1:generate-sources
   (default-generate-sources) on project tutorial: Execution default-generate-sources of
   goal com.jayway.maven.plugins.android.generation2:android-maven-plugin:3.1.1:generate-sources
   failed: Could not find tool 'aapt'. Please provide a proper Android SDK directory path as
   configuration parameter &lt;sdk&gt;&lt;path&gt;...&lt;/path&gt;&lt;/sdk&gt; in the plugin &lt;configuration/&gt;. As an
   alternative, you may add the parameter to commandline: -Dandroid.sdk.path=... or set
   environment variable ANDROID_HOME. -&gt; [Help 1]

After a quick search I found this really fine answer on StackOverflow and a bug report explaining how to fix this issue on my linux environment:

cd $ANDROID_HOME/platform-tools
ln -s ../build-tools/android-4.2.2/aapt aapt
ln -s ../build-tools/android-4.2.2/lib lib
ln -s ../build-tools/android-4.2.2/aidl aidl

Because I am working on different machines, I had to fix this on at least one windows box too:

cd $ANDROID_HOMEplatform-tools
mklink aapt.exe ..build-toolsandroid-4.2.2aapt.exe
mklink /D lib ..build-toolsandroid-4.2.2lib
mklink aidl.exe ..build-toolsandroid-4.2.2aidl.exe

The original answer is available on StackOverflow and I also added my windows version of the commands as a comment to that answer.

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