[gui] java.lang.IllegalStateException: Could not find AndroidManifest.xml

[fparrel]

Opening a jadx project on jadx-gui then chose File/Save as gradle project
AndroidManifest.xml is present along with smali files
IMPORTANT! If the error occurs with a specific APK file please attach or provide link to apk file! -> impossible forbiden by github

• Jadx version: 1.5.1
• Java version: 11.0.26
• Java VM: Ubuntu OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM
• Platform: Linux (5.15.0-134-generic amd64)
• Max heap size: 11044 MB
• Program args: -Xms128M -XX:MaxRAMPercentage=70.0 -Dawt.useSystemAAFontSettings=lcd -Dswing.aatext=true -Djava.util.Arrays.useLegacyMergeSort=true -Djdk.util.zip.disableZip64ExtraFieldValidation=true -XX:+IgnoreUnrecognizedVMOptions --add-opens=java.base/java.lang=ALL-UNNAMED -Dsun.java2d.noddraw=true -Dsun.java2d.d3d=false -Dsun.java2d.ddforcevram=true -Dsun.java2d.ddblit=false -Dswing.useflipBufferStrategy=True

java.lang.IllegalStateException: Could not find AndroidManifest.xml
	at jadx.core.export.ExportGradleTask.run(ExportGradleTask.java:40)
	at jadx.core.utils.tasks.TaskExecutor.wrapTask(TaskExecutor.java:166)
	at jadx.core.utils.tasks.TaskExecutor.runStages(TaskExecutor.java:142)
	at java.base/java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1128)
	at java.base/java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:628)
	at java.base/java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:829)

[jpstotz]

Most likely you have not loaded an APK file into Jadx-GUI, but the function you use is only for APKs.

For a workaround please see #2345

[fparrel]

Thanks! Indeed, I created a project from a directory containing output of apktool.
Creating the project directly from .apk works fine