Hello, I have been building an Android app for some time now, and I decided to start using Ant for building instead of through Eclipse. Building through Eclipse has always worked flawlessly, but when I started building with Ant, the builds (that would install in an emulator) would always be unstable. Ant would always build and install the app fine, but running the app would cause these serious instability issues.
Here are a few examples that would occur after building with Ant and installing the app: 1. The application would force close because of ClassCastExceptions being thrown. The source of these errors would be traced to casts like this: (LinearLayout)findViewById(R.id.my_layout) In this case, R.id.my_layout (or whatever I called it) would point to a non-existing resource. Of course, building this in Eclipse would not show these errors. 2. The wrong string resources would be used in an unpredictable way. 3. Layouts would not load up correctly, also causing random failures and force-closes. I believe that the source of these issues is related to how it is compiling R.java and the way it links it up to resources. I am unfamiliar as to how it builds resources into apps, so I am at a loss as to why this is occurring in the first place. The interesting thing is that if I make some change to the source code, and do another 'ant compile' or 'ant install', the problems in the previous build disappear and new resource issues pop up. After plenty of googling, I could not find anything describing something similar to this issue. I am concerned that potentially building via Ant might be exposing issues that I am not aware of, so besides using Ant, I just want to make sure. Is this a known issue? I just want to make sure before I attempt to reproduce the problem on a smaller scale. My development computer is: - Mac OS X 10.6.5 - from java -version: java version "1.6.0_22" Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_22-b04-307-10M3261) Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 17.1-b03-307, mixed mode) I'm just using the default JVM for this. - building against Android + Google APIs, API 8 revision 2. Thank you very much, Brian -- 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
