When updating an app android, and after updating the sdk, get the following error:
[Fatal Error] :3:214: The value of attribute “name” associated with an element type “item” must not contain the ‘<’ character.
Could not read C:…\Sdk\platform-tools\api\annotations.zip
java.io.IOException: Could not parse XML from android/accounts/annotations.xml
What could be the problem? What should I change to be able to generate the release without error?
Thanks
Hey.
I found out that when using android platform tools version 26 wich is the target I am currently building for this error does not happen
If I update to platform tools version 28.03 wich is the latest this error does happen and the indicated xml file is indeed malformed … it has some < simbols instead of the entity name ‘<’; wich it is suposed to have, hence the error is thrown.
I’m building on android-29 and kept hitting this problem. I ended up unpacking the zip file, correcting the errors manually and then overwriting the annotations.zip file.
I made my version public GitHub - ChrisGibb/annotations-fix: Fix syntax errors in android annotations.zip.
Before you use this, I would suggest you unpack your annotations.zip file, and check that there are not substantial differences.
