The message you get running apkbuilder is a bit misleading I agree. I've been very tempted to simply remove the tool but I'm sure that would annoy more people.
The issues is that apkbuilder (the script) is just not maintained at all because neither Ant, nor Eclipse use it. With the introduction of library project, this final step in build android applications has become more complex and requires more parameters to be passed to com.android.sdklib.build.ApkBuilder. Since the default build system doesn't use the apkbuilder script, we haven't added all those new parameters to apkbuilder. At this time we simply don't have the resources to support people who want to use their own build system, but we really wish we could. In many ways we try to make it easy on other tools vendor by clearly separating logic to eclipse or ant specific code (hence the multitude of jar files everywhere in the tools and in ADT), but this is not one of them. The biggest issue would be to extract the logic to deal with library projects and package that with sdklib somehow (there's a lot in ADT and in the Ant custom tasks right now) so that we could build a new ApkbuilderMain that can handle libraries somewhat automatically. Unless someone is willing to contribute this, it's unlikely to happen for a while (if ever) though. Xav -- Xavier Ducrohet Android SDK Tech Lead Google Inc. Please do not send me questions directly. Thanks! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
