Question

Since updating my SDK Tools to r12, an existing project (with zero code
changes) now fails during aapt generation with:

[INFO] C:\Dev\Android-sdk\platform-tools\aapt.exe [package, -m, -J,
C:\Source\android\Jumblee\target\generated-sources\r, -M,
C:\Source\android\Jumblee\target\filtered-manifest\AndroidManifest.xml,
-S,
C:\Source\android\Jumblee\target\generated-sources\combined-resources\res,
–auto-add-overlay, -I,
C:\Dev\Android-sdk\platforms\android-10\android.jar]

[INFO]
C:\Source\android\Jumblee\target\generated-sources\combined-resources\res\values\theme.xml:16:
error: Error retrieving parent for item: No resource found that
matches the given name ‘@android:style/WindowTitle.

The relevant lines from the resource file are:

<!-- Set the theme for the window title -->
<!-- NOTE: setting android:textAppearance to style defined above --
<style name="CustomWindowTitle" parent="@android:style/WindowTitle">
     <item name="android:textAppearance">@style/CustomWindowTitleText</item>
</style>

Has anyone seem something similar?
Or better still know wtf is going on?

Answer 1

OK the issue I raised was http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=18659

It turns out that @android:style/WindowTitle and a few other styles that people have been using are not published styles.

So the proper solution is to stop using those private styles. And the most appropriate way of doing that it is probably to copy the style in question to your own project and make it your own style.