Building AAB using intellij Idea

[mitchbaye]

Hello everyone, I'm working on releasing an Android app Ive got building for my company but I'm having problems getting the aab to be accepted by Google. Im able to build up the apk just fine, and that runs and works as expected on people's Android Devices, but when I go to rename the apk file extension to aab and upload to my Google play console, it gives me a failure error of "Error: File 'BundleConfig.pb' was not found."

Looking at my adt.cfg file I have for the AIRSDK 5.1.1.3.1 (I might have added the extra .1 at the end... I honestly don't remember) I have DebugOut, CreateAndroidAppBundle, and KeepAndroidStudioOutput set to true and uncommented within the file, but it still only builds the APK.

This is the output within AIRSDK Manager when I do build up the APK, with sensitive information removed of course:

ADT 51.1.3.1 called with: -package -target apk -arch armv8 -storetype PKCS12 -keystore C:\Users\*\Documents\Repos\**\***\certs\Distribution\androiddistributioncert.p12 -storepass xxxxxx C:\Users\*\Documents\Repos\**\***\bin-release\**_Release.apk 
C:\Users\*\Documents\Repos\**\***\bin-release\**-app.xml -extdir 
C:\Users\*\Documents\Repos\**\***\lib -C 
C:\Users\*\Documents\Repos\**\***\bin-release **.swf -C 
C:\Users\*\Documents\Repos\**\***\src ui\DataStats\ReadingsForGraph.xml -C 
C:\Users\*\Documents\Repos\**\***\assets ui -C 
C:\Users\*\Documents\Repos\**\***\assets audio -C 
C:\Users\*\Documents\Repos\**\***\assets icons -C 
C:\Users\*\Documents\Repos\**\***\assets **\ReadingsForGraph.xml

Target requested was apk-captive-runtime, but not using legacy APK so building via Android Studio

Creating device SDK handler - location passed in = C:\Users\*\AppData\Local\Android\Sdk

NOTE: Multiple Android build-tools folders exist, choosing the latest version (36.0.0 rc3) for packaging

Version in APK = 51.1.3.1, version of ADT = 51.1.3.1

NOTE: targets later than Android 33 need Gradle Plugin versions of 8 or more. Adjusting to 8.1.1

Gradle build where ADT is using JRE version 17.0.12

but where Gradle will be using the JDK from C:/Program Files/Java/jdk-19\bin\java.exe

Gradle build command:  C:/Program Files/Java/jdk-19\bin\java.exe -Xmx1024m -Dorg.gradle.appname=gradlew -Dorg.gradle.jvmargs=-Xmx1024m -Duser.dir="C:\Users\*\Documents\Repos\**\***\bin-release\AndroidStudioProject" -DAIR_GRADLE_KEYPWD=xxxxxx -DAIR_GRADLE_STOREPWD=xxxxxx -cp "C:\Users\*\Documents\Repos\**\***\bin-release\AndroidStudioProject\gradle\wrapper\gradle-wrapper.jar";"C:\Users\*\sdks\air\AIRSDK_51.1.3\lib\android\bin\gradle-cli.jar" org.gradle.wrapper.GradleWrapperMain :app:assembleRelease

Does not exist: C:\Users\*\Documents\Repos\**\***\bin-release\AndroidStudioProject/app/build/outputs/apk/release/app-arm64-v8a-release.apk

The arm64 v8 apk not existing concerns me but Ive been testing the app on some recent Android phones without any issues so that might be okay? And Ive tried to import my project into Android Studio directly, but it doesn't have the Flash/Flex plugin thats required to build the project normally, so that has been a brick wall there.
Any sort of help or advice as to what I could try to do next would be greatly appreciated.

[ajwfrost]

FYI that 'does not exist' thing is mostly just a note: gradle builds either name their files with or without the ABI part, and we didn't discern a particular pattern, so this just means we looked for "app-arm64-v8a-release.apk" and didn't find it; we would then have found "app-release.apk", otherwise you'd have been presented with an error.

But the key thing here is that it's not building an AAB file, it's building an APK. The request being passed in is for apk, but you mention you've got the "CreateAndroidAppBundle" setting .. which means it should instead switch to this build.

Where are you setting that? I'm wondering whether it's not picking this up for some reason. The mechanism has a priority order:

1. If the setting is present in your app descriptor's <android> section: <createAppBundle>true</createAppBundle>
2. If the setting is in the adt.cfg file present in the home folder: C:\users\*\.airsdk\ - CreateAndroidAppBundle=true
3. If the setting is in the adt.cfg file present in the SDK folder: C:\Users\*\sdks\air\AIRSDK_51.1.3\lib\ - CreateAndroidAppBundle=true

Worth checking which file you changed perhaps? or put it in the app descriptor?

We'll be adding some more verbose output to ADT to try to help troubleshoot these kinds of issues..!

thanks

[mitchbaye]

I updated the adt.cfg within the home folder and that seems to have done the trick! So thank you very much for that suggestion!

For setting it within the app descriptor, Im guessing its another tag within the *-app.xml I have? But not within the manifestAdditions section/tag? I would like to keep the "fix" somewhere that any future developer working on this project doesn't have to go through this same process of troubleshooting if they aren't previously aware of everything.