nativescript CLI build failed: No resource found that matches the given name 'android:Theme.Material.Light'.

[Peter]

Hi,

I created a project and tried to build it, but I got an error.
I installed android 4.4.2 SDK (API 19), and a newer version was already installed: 5.0.1 (API 21)

I could create, prepare, build, deploy to android with an older version of (0.4.x).

I used the following commands:

create hello
cd hello
platform android
prepare android
build android


 [aapt] D:\hobbyprojects\nativescript\hello\platforms\android\res\values-v21\styles.xml:3: error: Error retrieving parent for item: No resource found that matches the given name Material.Light'.

BUILD FAILED
D:\libraries\androidsdk\tools\ant\build.xml:653: The following error occurred while executing this line:
D:\libraries\androidsdk\tools\ant\build.xml:698: null returned: 1

Total time: 1 second
Command cmd failed with exit code 1

Could you please help me, how can I build the application?
Thanks,
Peter

[Mihail]

Hello Péter,

We observed similar problem when there are many Android SDK folders installed on the computer. For example, in one of the SDK folders there is 'platforms\android-19' directory and in another SDK folder there is 'platforms\android-21' directory.

In order to check which platforms are available to the "tns" tool you can type the following command

android list target

before "tns build android" command.  Then examine the output and try to find an entry with id "android-21" and/or "API Level: 21". If you don't see such an entry you should modify your PATH environment variable to contain the correct SDK folder.

Please let me know if that is the case.

Regards,
Mihail
Telerik

 

 

[diandian82]

I got the same problem. I only installed sdk19 and the path is C:\Users\george\AppData\Local\Android\android-sdk\platforms\android-19

I still don't know how to fix this. 

I run the android list target and get this list as screen shot.

What else i can do to fix this? Is this only support android 21 above?

[Ludovic]

Same here !

[Ben]

I had the same issue - I was able to workaround it by commenting out the style reference in values-v21\styles.xml

[Mihail]

Hello all,

We found a bug in our build logic. I would suggest the following workarounds.

Workaround 1
Install Android SDK 21 and edit %your_project%/platforms/android/project.properties file to contain the following line:

target=android-21

If the file contains other target, please make sure to update it to android-21.

Workaround 2
Delete the following folder %your_project%/platforms/android/res/values-v21

On some machines it may be needed to clean previous build artifacts. You can do that with the following commands:

cd %your_project%/platforms/android/
ant clean

I will update this thread once we ship the bug fix.

Regards,
Mihail
Telerik

 

 

[João]

I replaced on the file "res/values/styles.xml" Theme.Material.Light to Theme.Light
And works for me.

[RainerAtSpirit]

@João: Very nice, that did it for me.