Question

Trying to create/run the HelloWorld android app, building via ant debug fails with an unknown option in aapt. Nothing has been done to the project aside from generation itself with android create project

What causes this error? How are projects created with android create built?

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$ ant debug
...
[renderscript] No renderscript files to compile.
       [echo] ----------
       [echo] Handling Resources...
       [aapt] Generating resource IDs...
       [aapt] ERROR: Unknown option '--generate-dependencies'
       [aapt] Android Asset Packaging Tool
       ...aapt usage...

full output (pastebin)

The project was created with

$ android create project -t 2 -p ./HelloWorld -a HelloWorldActivity -k com.example.helloworld

ant is v1.8.2
android-sdk version is r15-1

$ android list targets
Available Android targets:
----------
 id: 1 or "android-8"
 Name: Android 2.2
 Type: Platform
 API level: 8
 Revision: 2
 Skins: WQVGA432, WQVGA400, WVGA800 (default), QVGA, HVGA, WVGA854
 ABIs : armeabi
----------
 id: 2 or "android-13"
 Name: Android 3.2
 Type: Platform
 API level: 13
 Revision: 1
 Skins: WXGA (default)
 ABIs : armeabi

Answer 1

I was having this problem too after upgrading the android-sdk package in my distro.

Run the sdk manager (‘android sdk’ from the command line) and upgrade all of the packages, specifically the SDK Platform Tools package.