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[Titanium] Unable to find Android SDK tools: zipalign

I recently upgraded Titanium, and possibly also my Android SDK (this is getting a bit messy, with the old SDK, used by Titanium, living along with the new SDK brought by the new, beta, Android Studio). And when compiling an app for Android, which I hadn’t done in a long while, I encountered this error:

[ERROR] : Unable to find Android SDK tools: zipalign.
[ERROR] : You have an incomplete or out-of-date installation.
[ERROR] : Verify your Android SDK packages or reinstall the Android SDK by running titanium setup android or manually downloading from http://appcelerator.com/android-sdk.

I opened the Android SDK manager, but no obvious package seemed to be missing. Finally, I found someone suggesting to move around that “zipalign” tool itself. So, I eventually found zipalign.exe in adt-bundle-windows-x86_64\sdk\build-tools\android-4.4W, and copied it into adt-bundle-windows-x86_64\sdk\tools. Success! 🙂

Also, thanks very much to the guy who posted a close enough answer there: http://developer.appcelerator.com/question/175598. Too bad his answer wasn’t marked as the proper solution, the chosen one is rubbish…

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  1. patheticcockroach says

    The worst thing with that issue, is that it will reappear on various occasion (probably whenever you upgrade the Android sDK): I just had to fix it _again_……



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