Hello,
do you have an output from Ant when the error happens?
Ant and Eclipse use mostly the same code to generate the apk, so I'm a
bit surprised to see this.
thanks
Xav
On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 9:51 AM, focuser <linto...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Feb 21, 8:42 am, "Mark Murphy" <mmur...@commonsware.com> wrote:
>> 1. Why are you "still not able to use an ant script to automate the
>> build&sign process"?
>>
>> 2. If you aren't able to do #1, how do you know it "triggers the bug and
>> gives you a corrupted apk"?
>
> OK, to clarify: If the ant script is used to sign the apk, it might
> produce a corrupted apk, i.e. throwing ClassCastException or
> NullPointerException at some point. This seems not happening all the
> time though. However, if I export an unsigned apk using Eclipse and
> sign it manually on the exactly same source code, everything is fine.
> So we had to give up using the ant script.
>
> The only "fancy" thing we do in the build script is to copy an xml
> that has the release Google Maps api key into res/values. But I think
> this should have no impact since the copy happens before compilation
> and the R.java will be regenerated by the build script:
>
>
> ===================================
> <target name="copy-release-files">
> <copy file="${build.resources}/api-keys-release.xml" tofile="$
> {resource-dir}/values/api-keys.xml" overwrite="true"/>
> </target>
>
> <target name="release" depends="copy-release-files, dex, package-
> res">
> ===================================
>
> =======================================
> Buildfile: build.xml
>
> copy-release-files:
> [copy] Copying 1 file to /workspaces/android-ws/theProject/res/
> values
>
> dirs:
> [echo] Creating output directories if needed...
> [mkdir] Created dir: /workspaces/android-ws/theProject/bin-build
> [mkdir] Created dir: /workspaces/android-ws/theProject/bin-build/
> classes
>
> resource-src:
> [echo] Generating R.java / Manifest.java from the resources...
> [exec] (skipping hidden file 'res/drawable/.DS_Store')
> ...
> =======================================
>
> I'm not saying this is the same issue as the copy protection. Just
> they look very related.
>
>> 3. Do you have a reproducible scenario you can publish with code? Or does
>> the phenomenon only occur with this one app?
>
> We have not put any effort to reproduce the problem in other code base
> since we can still export and sign the apk manually without any
> problems. We will submit the code if we find a way to reproduce it.
>
> >
>
--
Xavier Ducrohet
Android Engineer, Google.
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