Wrapper for Android Asset Packaging Tool (AAPT) to pass --no-version-vectors when packaging.

This is useful for non-Gradle builds that cannot pass this parameter (e.g. Android ADT not maintained anymore), to avoid apps using AppCompat to crash with:

Caused by: android.content.res.Resources$NotFoundException: File res/drawable/abc_vector_test.xml from drawable resource ID #0x7f020052

Android Developers - Vector Drawables Backward Compatibility Solution

Installation

Download already compiled binaries from Releases tab (top)

Windows

• Navigate to android-sdk\build-tools\xx.y.z\
• Rename aapt.exe to aapt-original.exe
• Save aapt-wrapper.exe as aapt.exe

Unix

• Navigate to android-sdk/build-tools/xx.y.z/
• Rename aapt to aapt-original
• Save aapt-wrapper as aapt

Verify installation by calling aapt. You should see the wrapper info followed by the real aapt info.

> aapt
Android Asset Packaging Tool - Wrapper
Version 1.0 (31 Dec 2017)
https://github.com/dandar3/android-aapt-wrapper
 
Command:
  aapt-original
 
Android Asset Packaging Tool
 
Usage:
 aapt l[ist] [-v] [-a] file.{zip,jar,apk}
   List contents of Zip-compatible archive.
 
 aapt d[ump] [--values] [--include-meta-data] WHAT file.{apk} [asset [asset ...]]
   strings          Print the contents of the resource table string pool in the APK.
...

How to compile

Optional step if you need to compile it yourself with MingW for Windows / g++ for Linux.

g++ aapt-wrapper.cpp -o aapt-wrapper