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  1. thebowers

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    I would really like to get this to work. It opens so many things (hate having to use HxD and axmlprinter.jar, when I could just use this with plain xml).

    Anyway I can decompile the .apk just fine but can never get it to recompile. I get these errors below.

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D:\>java -jar apktool.jar b twitter
I: Checking whether sources has changed...
I: Smaling...
I: Checking whether resources has changed...
I: Building resources...
Exception in thread "main" brut.androlib.AndrolibException: brut.common.BrutException: could not exec command: [aapt, p, -F, D:\Users\THEBOW~1\AppData\Local\Temp\APKTOOL6666141519779796787.tmp, -I, D:\Users\THEBOW~1\AppData\Local\Temp\brut_util_Jar_7251183562717733225.tmp, -I, D:\Users\THEBOW~1\AppData\Local\Temp\brut_util_Jar_5111289146222151494.tmp, -S, D:\\twitter\res, -M, D:\\twitter\AndroidManifest.xml, D:\\twitter\9patch]
        at brut.androlib.res.AndrolibResources.aaptPackage(Unknown Source)
        at brut.androlib.Androlib.buildResourcesFull(Unknown Source)
        at brut.androlib.Androlib.buildResources(Unknown Source)
        at brut.androlib.Androlib.build(Unknown Source)
        at brut.androlib.Androlib.build(Unknown Source)
        at brut.apktool.Main.cmdBuild(Unknown Source)
        at brut.apktool.Main.main(Unknown Source)
Caused by: brut.common.BrutException: could not exec command: [aapt, p, -F, D:\Users\THEBOW~1\AppData\Local\Temp\APKTOOL6666141519779796787.tmp, -I, D:\Users\THEBOW~1\AppData\Local\Temp\brut_util_Jar_7251183562717733225.tmp, -I, D:\Users\THEBOW~1\AppData\Local\Temp\brut_util_Jar_5111289146222151494.tmp, -S, D:\\twitter\res, -M, D:\\twitter\AndroidManifest.xml, D:\\twitter\9patch]
        at brut.util.OS.exec(Unknown Source)
        ... 7 more
Caused by: java.io.IOException: Cannot run program "aapt": CreateProcess error=2, The system cannot find the file specified
        at java.lang.ProcessBuilder.start(Unknown Source)
        at java.lang.Runtime.exec(Unknown Source)
        at java.lang.Runtime.exec(Unknown Source)
        ... 8 more
Caused by: java.io.IOException: CreateProcess error=2, The system cannot find the file specified
        at java.lang.ProcessImpl.create(Native Method)
        at java.lang.ProcessImpl.<init>(Unknown Source)
        at java.lang.ProcessImpl.start(Unknown Source)
        ... 11 more
D:\>
    I get this even if I just simply decompile and recompile. So, anyone know what the errors mean and how to fix it. I am on Vista 32-bit. I have tried this on two different hard drives with the same result.
     
    #1 thebowers, Jul 9, 2010
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    do you have the version of aapt.exe that came with apktoo..jar in your path?
     
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    Don't know that I follow what you are saying. I only do two commands with apktool.jar

    java -jar apktool.jar d <whatever.apk> <whatever>
    java -jar apktool.jar b <whatever>
     
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    it relies on aapt.exe, put it in a dir in your PATH environment variable in windows.

    I prefer the batch file... android-apktool - Project Hosting on Google Code
     
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    Ok I got the apktool.bat and aapt.exe files what else do I need to do from here? Can you explain the process as if I don't know a clue...lol
     
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    if you have the android sdk installed (adb) then the android-sdk-windows\tools directory may already be in your path. if that is the case simply drop the apktool stuff and aapt into the android-sdk-windows\tools directory, overwriting the current aapt.exe

    that way you can run apktool globally.. I put all my android tools in that directory for simplicity's sake
    Code:
    c:\anywhere\apk> apktool d something.apk something_decompiled
    long story short, just put the jar, the bat, and aapt.exe in the sdk tools directory
     
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    I get that, can you tell me where you add PATH enviroment variables. I can't remember that process.

    Edit: I didn't have an aapt.exe in the tools directory before
     
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    start>right click computer>properties>advanced system settings>advanced>environment variables

    heres mine:

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    Just to make sure you full path would be to the aapt.exe file, correct?

    :%path%:\android\tools\aapt.exe would be my example.
     
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    no, just :%path%:\android\tools

    the path is a list of locations that the system looks for when commands are given. By adding this location, windows knows where to look for the executables when it doesnt find then in the rest of its normal places (c:\windows, c:\windows\system32, etc)

    add directories to the path to put executables in them that you want to access from any location.

    if you wanted to be real unclean you could just put aapt, apktool.jar and apktool.bat in c:\windows\system32

    but its better IMO to keep your apps in their own directory, just makes for a cleaner environment.
     
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    Thank you very much, up and working now.
     
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    congrats!

    The latest version of apktool rocks. It decompiles .9's and xml correctly so that they can be edited directly and then it can recompile without issues :)
     
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