Error failed processing manifest

I cannot deploy my app for Android. It just does not build and APK and always gives me this error:

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

* What went wrong:
Execution failed for task ':processDebugResources'.
> Android resource linking failed
  Output:  /home/maydin/Desktop/PROJECTS/Qt/build-AppV2-Android_for_armeabi_v7a_Clang_Qt_5_12_1_for_Android_ARMv72-Debug/android-build/build/intermediates/merged_manifests/debug/processDebugManifest/merged/AndroidManifest.xml:39: error: 'orientation|uiMode|screenLayout|screenSize|smallestScreenSize|layoutDirection|locale|fontScale|keyboard|keyboardHidden|navigation|mcc|mnc|density' is incompatible with attribute configChanges (attr) flags [locale=4, fontScale=1073741824, keyboard=16, keyboardHidden=32, layoutDirection=8192, mcc=1, mnc=2, navigation=64, orientation=128, screenLayout=256, screenSize=1024, smallestScreenSize=2048, touchscreen=8, uiMode=512].
  error: failed processing manifest.
  
  Command: /home/maydin/.gradle/caches/transforms-1/files-1.1/aapt2-3.2.0-4818971-linux.jar/ebd8c363d5b5dfd0111c4ccf701edca0/aapt2-3.2.0-4818971-linux/aapt2 link -I
          /home/maydin/Android/sdk-tools-linux-4333796/platforms/android-21/android.jar
          --manifest
          /home/maydin/Desktop/PROJECTS/Qt/build-AppV2-Android_for_armeabi_v7a_Clang_Qt_5_12_1_for_Android_ARMv72-Debug/android-build/build/intermediates/merged_manifests/debug/processDebugManifest/merged/AndroidManifest.xml
          -o
          /home/maydin/Desktop/PROJECTS/Qt/build-AppV2-Android_for_armeabi_v7a_Clang_Qt_5_12_1_for_Android_ARMv72-Debug/android-build/build/intermediates/processed_res/debug/processDebugResources/out/resources-debug.ap_
          -R
          @/home/maydin/Desktop/PROJECTS/Qt/build-AppV2-Android_for_armeabi_v7a_Clang_Qt_5_12_1_for_Android_ARMv72-Debug/android-build/build/intermediates/incremental/processDebugResources/resources-list-for-resources-debug.ap_.txt
          --auto-add-overlay
          --java
          /home/maydin/Desktop/PROJECTS/Qt/build-AppV2-Android_for_armeabi_v7a_Clang_Qt_5_12_1_for_Android_ARMv72-Debug/android-build/build/generated/not_namespaced_r_class_sources/debug/processDebugResources/r
          --custom-package
          org.qtproject.example.AppV2
          -0
          apk
          --no-version-vectors
  Daemon:  AAPT2 aapt2-3.2.0-4818971-linux Daemon #0
  Output:  /home/maydin/Desktop/PROJECTS/Qt/build-AppV2-Android_for_armeabi_v7a_Clang_Qt_5_12_1_for_Android_ARMv72-Debug/android-build/build/intermediates/merged_manifests/debug/processDebugManifest/merged/AndroidManifest.xml:39: AAPT: error: 'orientation|uiMode|screenLayout|screenSize|smallestScreenSize|layoutDirection|locale|fontScale|keyboard|keyboardHidden|navigation|mcc|mnc|density' is incompatible with attribute configChanges (attr) flags [locale=4, fontScale=1073741824, keyboard=16, keyboardHidden=32, layoutDirection=8192, mcc=1, mnc=2, navigation=64, orientation=128, screenLayout=256, screenSize=1024, smallestScreenSize=2048, touchscreen=8, uiMode=512].
      
  error: failed processing manifest.
  Command: /home/maydin/.gradle/caches/transforms-1/files-1.1/aapt2-3.2.0-4818971-linux.jar/ebd8c363d5b5dfd0111c4ccf701edca0/aapt2-3.2.0-4818971-linux/aapt2 link -I
          /home/maydin/Android/sdk-tools-linux-4333796/platforms/android-21/android.jar
          --manifest
          /home/maydin/Desktop/PROJECTS/Qt/build-AppV2-Android_for_armeabi_v7a_Clang_Qt_5_12_1_for_Android_ARMv72-Debug/android-build/build/intermediates/merged_manifests/debug/processDebugManifest/merged/AndroidManifest.xml
          -o
14 actionable tasks: 1 executed, 13 up-to-date
          /home/maydin/Desktop/PROJECTS/Qt/build-AppV2-Android_for_armeabi_v7a_Clang_Qt_5_12_1_for_Android_ARMv72-Debug/android-build/build/intermediates/processed_res/debug/processDebugResources/out/resources-debug.ap_
          -R
          @/home/maydin/Desktop/PROJECTS/Qt/build-AppV2-Android_for_armeabi_v7a_Clang_Qt_5_12_1_for_Android_ARMv72-Debug/android-build/build/intermediates/incremental/processDebugResources/resources-list-for-resources-debug.ap_.txt
          --auto-add-overlay
          --java
          /home/maydin/Desktop/PROJECTS/Qt/build-AppV2-Android_for_armeabi_v7a_Clang_Qt_5_12_1_for_Android_ARMv72-Debug/android-build/build/generated/not_namespaced_r_class_sources/debug/processDebugResources/r
          --custom-package
          org.qtproject.example.AppV2
          -0
          apk
          --no-version-vectors
  Daemon:  AAPT2 aapt2-3.2.0-4818971-linux Daemon #0

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BUILD FAILED in 10s
AAPT2 aapt2-3.2.0-4818971-linux Daemon #0: shutdown
VCS Checkout Cache (/home/maydin/Desktop/PROJECTS/Qt/build-AppV2-Android_for_armeabi_v7a_Clang_Qt_5_12_1_for_Android_ARMv72-Debug/android-build/.gradle/vcsWorkingDirs) has not been cleaned up in 0 days
Building the android package failed!
10:30:58: The process "/home/maydin/Qt/5.12.1/android_armv7/bin/androiddeployqt" exited with code 14.
Error while building/deploying project AppV2 (kit: Android for armeabi-v7a (Clang Qt 5.12.1 for Android ARMv72))
When executing step "Build Android APK"

I removed «|mcc|mnc|density» from Manifest file, cleaned project, tried again but still same error. I am drying to build in debug mode. Also i choose Android-21 for both minimum and target SDK while using android-21 API.

SDK version: 26.1.1
NDK version: 18.1.5063045
Qt version: 12.1

I updated NDK to latest but didn’t work.

Then I changed SDK to 28 from 21, then It compiled. There should be a bug in lower version SDKs I guess.

@maydin

I am using with Qt5.12.1 these versions

Therefore I recommend to upgrade the ndk version

@sierdzio said in Not possible to deploy for Android:

Can you post your manifest here? Or at least line 39 and line containing configChanges?

• Cleaned project
• Deleted android folder in project
• Removed related lines from .PRO
• Deleted build folder
• Project Settings -> Create template -> Chosen API 21 for both minimum and target.

<activity android:configChanges="orientation|uiMode|screenLayout|screenSize|smallestScreenSize|layoutDirection|locale|fontScale|keyboard|keyboardHidden|navigation|mcc|mnc|density" android:name="org.qtproject.qt5.android.bindings.QtActivity" android:label="AppV2" android:screenOrientation="unspecified" android:launchMode="singleTop">

Same error. Then I deleted build folder again and changed only configchanges to this:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<manifest package="org.qtproject.example.appv2" xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" android:versionName="1" android:versionCode="1" android:installLocation="auto">
    <application android:hardwareAccelerated="true" android:name="org.qtproject.qt5.android.bindings.QtApplication" android:label="AppV2">
        <activity android:configChanges="orientation|uiMode|screenLayout|screenSize|smallestScreenSize|layoutDirection|locale|fontScale|keyboard|keyboardHidden|navigation" android:name="org.qtproject.qt5.android.bindings.QtActivity" android:label="AppV2" android:screenOrientation="unspecified" android:launchMode="singleTop">
            <intent-filter>
                <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN"/>
                <category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER"/>
            </intent-filter>

            <!-- Application arguments -->
            <!-- meta-data android:name="android.app.arguments" android:value="arg1 arg2 arg3"/ -->
            <!-- Application arguments -->

            <meta-data android:name="android.app.lib_name" android:value="AppV2"/>
            <meta-data android:name="android.app.qt_sources_resource_id" android:resource="@array/qt_sources"/>
            <meta-data android:name="android.app.repository" android:value="default"/>
            <meta-data android:name="android.app.qt_libs_resource_id" android:resource="@array/qt_libs"/>
            <meta-data android:name="android.app.bundled_libs_resource_id" android:resource="@array/bundled_libs"/>
            <!-- Deploy Qt libs as part of package -->
            <meta-data android:name="android.app.bundle_local_qt_libs" android:value="-- %%BUNDLE_LOCAL_QT_LIBS%% --"/>
            <meta-data android:name="android.app.bundled_in_lib_resource_id" android:resource="@array/bundled_in_lib"/>
            <meta-data android:name="android.app.bundled_in_assets_resource_id" android:resource="@array/bundled_in_assets"/>
            <!-- Run with local libs -->
            <meta-data android:name="android.app.use_local_qt_libs" android:value="-- %%USE_LOCAL_QT_LIBS%% --"/>
            <meta-data android:name="android.app.libs_prefix" android:value="/data/local/tmp/qt/"/>
            <meta-data android:name="android.app.load_local_libs" android:value="-- %%INSERT_LOCAL_LIBS%% --"/>
            <meta-data android:name="android.app.load_local_jars" android:value="-- %%INSERT_LOCAL_JARS%% --"/>
            <meta-data android:name="android.app.static_init_classes" android:value="-- %%INSERT_INIT_CLASSES%% --"/>
            <!-- Used to specify custom system library path to run with local system libs -->
            <!-- <meta-data android:name="android.app.system_libs_prefix" android:value="/system/lib/"/> -->
            <!--  Messages maps -->
            <meta-data android:value="@string/ministro_not_found_msg" android:name="android.app.ministro_not_found_msg"/>
            <meta-data android:value="@string/ministro_needed_msg" android:name="android.app.ministro_needed_msg"/>
            <meta-data android:value="@string/fatal_error_msg" android:name="android.app.fatal_error_msg"/>
            <!--  Messages maps -->

            <!-- Splash screen -->
            <!-- meta-data android:name="android.app.splash_screen_drawable" android:resource="@drawable/logo"/ -->
            <!-- meta-data android:name="android.app.splash_screen_sticky" android:value="true"/ -->
            <!-- Splash screen -->

            <!-- Background running -->
            <!-- Warning: changing this value to true may cause unexpected crashes if the
                          application still try to draw after
                          "applicationStateChanged(Qt::ApplicationSuspended)"
                          signal is sent! -->
            <meta-data android:name="android.app.background_running" android:value="false"/>
            <!-- Background running -->

            <!-- auto screen scale factor -->
            <meta-data android:name="android.app.auto_screen_scale_factor" android:value="false"/>
            <!-- auto screen scale factor -->

            <!-- extract android style -->
            <!-- available android:values :
                * default - In most cases this will be the same as "full", but it can also be something else if needed, e.g., for compatibility reasons
                * full - useful QWidget & Quick Controls 1 apps
                * minimal - useful for Quick Controls 2 apps, it is much faster than "full"
                * none - useful for apps that don't use any of the above Qt modules
                -->
            <meta-data android:name="android.app.extract_android_style" android:value="default"/>
            <!-- extract android style -->
    </activity>

    <!-- For adding service(s) please check: https://wiki.qt.io/AndroidServices -->

    </application>

    <uses-sdk android:minSdkVersion="21" android:targetSdkVersion="21"/>
    <supports-screens android:largeScreens="true" android:normalScreens="true" android:anyDensity="true" android:smallScreens="true"/>

    <!-- The following comment will be replaced upon deployment with default permissions based on the dependencies of the application.
         Remove the comment if you do not require these default permissions. -->
    <!-- %%INSERT_PERMISSIONS -->

    <!-- The following comment will be replaced upon deployment with default features based on the dependencies of the application.
         Remove the comment if you do not require these default features. -->
    <!-- %%INSERT_FEATURES -->

</manifest>

Now build works. But it doesn’t start in my phone now. Here application output:

D/SecurityLogAgent(10563): FileCipher : Destination file name = denialLog-565317820.zip dest file Size 1360
E/Zygote  ( 6531): MountEmulatedStorage()
E/Zygote  ( 6531): v2
I/SELinux ( 6531): Function: selinux_compare_spd_ram, SPD-policy is existed. and_ver=SEPF_GT-I9500_5.0.1-1 ver=51
I/libpersona( 6531): KNOX_SDCARD checking this for 10059
I/libpersona( 6531): KNOX_SDCARD not a persona
I/SELinux ( 6531): Function: selinux_compare_spd_ram , priority [1] , priority version is VE=SEPF_GT-I9500_5.0.1-1_0051
E/SELinux ( 6531): [DEBUG] get_category: variable seinfo: default sensitivity: NULL, cateogry: NULL
I/art     ( 6531): Late-enabling -Xcheck:jni
I/ActivityManager( 3283): Start proc org.qtproject.example.appv2 for activity org.qtproject.example.appv2/org.qtproject.qt5.android.bindings.QtActivity: pid=6531 uid=10059 gids={50059, 9997, 3003, 1028, 1015, 1023} abi=armeabi-v7a
D/ResourcesManager( 6531): creating new AssetManager and set to /data/app/org.qtproject.example.appv2-2/base.apk
V/BitmapFactory( 6531): DecodeImagePath(decodeResourceStream3) : res/drawable-xxhdpi-v4/ic_ab_back_holo_light_am.png
V/BitmapFactory( 6531): DecodeImagePath(decodeResourceStream3) : res/drawable-xxhdpi-v4/sym_def_app_icon.png
I/QtCore  ( 6531): Start
I/Qt      ( 6531): qt started
V/BitmapFactory( 6531): DecodeImagePath(decodeResourceStream3) : res/drawable-xxhdpi-v4/scrubber_control_disabled_holo.png
V/BitmapFactory( 6531): DecodeImagePath(decodeResourceStream3) : res/drawable-xxhdpi-v4/scrubber_control_pressed_holo.png
V/BitmapFactory( 6531): DecodeImagePath(decodeResourceStream3) : res/drawable-xxhdpi-v4/scrubber_control_focused_holo.png
V/BitmapFactory( 6531): DecodeImagePath(decodeResourceStream3) : res/drawable-xxhdpi-v4/scrubber_control_normal_holo.png
V/BitmapFactory( 6531): DecodeImagePath(decodeResourceStream3) : res/drawable-xxhdpi-v4/text_select_handle_middle.png
V/BitmapFactory( 6531): DecodeImagePath(decodeResourceStream3) : res/drawable-xhdpi-v4/btn_check_buttonless_on.png
V/BitmapFactory( 6531): DecodeImagePath(decodeResourceStream3) : res/drawable-xhdpi-v4/btn_check_buttonless_off.png
D/Activity( 6531): performCreate Call secproduct feature valuefalse
D/Activity( 6531): performCreate Call debug elastic valuetrue
D/OpenGLRenderer( 6531): Render dirty regions requested: true
D/Atlas   ( 6531): Validating map...
I/OpenGLRenderer( 6531): Initialized EGL, version 1.4
W/OpenGLRenderer( 6531): Failed to choose config with EGL_SWAP_BEHAVIOR_PRESERVED, retrying without...
D/OpenGLRenderer( 6531): Get maximum texture size. GL_MAX_TEXTURE_SIZE is 4096
D/OpenGLRenderer( 6531): Enabling debug mode 0
E/        ( 6531): [android_ws] Format: 5, Width: 1080, Height: 1920
E/        ( 6531): [android_ws] Format: 5, Width: 1080, Height: 1920
E/        ( 6531): [android_ws] Format: 5, Width: 1080, Height: 1920
E/        ( 6531): [android_ws] Format: 5, Width: 1080, Height: 1920
W/System.err( 6531): java.lang.Exception: Can't find main library 'AppV2'
W/System.err( 6531): 	at org.qtproject.qt5.android.QtNative.startApplication(QtNative.java:331)
W/System.err( 6531): 	at org.qtproject.qt5.android.QtActivityDelegate$4.run(QtActivityDelegate.java:730)
W/System.err( 6531): 	at org.qtproject.qt5.android.QtLayout.onSizeChanged(QtLayout.java:77)
W/System.err( 6531): 	at android.view.View.sizeChange(View.java:16803)
W/System.err( 6531): 	at android.view.View.setFrame(View.java:16776)
W/System.err( 6531): 	at android.view.View.layout(View.java:16691)
W/System.err( 6531): 	at android.view.ViewGroup.layout(ViewGroup.java:5328)
W/System.err( 6531): 	at android.widget.FrameLayout.layoutChildren(FrameLayout.java:573)
W/System.err( 6531): 	at android.widget.FrameLayout.onLayout(FrameLayout.java:508)
W/System.err( 6531): 	at android.view.View.layout(View.java:16695)
W/System.err( 6531): 	at android.view.ViewGroup.layout(ViewGroup.java:5328)
W/System.err( 6531): 	at com.android.internal.widget.ActionBarOverlayLayout.onLayout(ActionBarOverlayLayout.java:494)
W/System.err( 6531): 	at android.view.View.layout(View.java:16695)
W/System.err( 6531): 	at android.view.ViewGroup.layout(ViewGroup.java:5328)
W/System.err( 6531): 	at android.widget.FrameLayout.layoutChildren(FrameLayout.java:573)
W/System.err( 6531): 	at android.widget.FrameLayout.onLayout(FrameLayout.java:508)
W/System.err( 6531): 	at android.view.View.layout(View.java:16695)
W/System.err( 6531): 	at android.view.ViewGroup.layout(ViewGroup.java:5328)
W/System.err( 6531): 	at android.view.ViewRootImpl.performLayout(ViewRootImpl.java:2319)
W/System.err( 6531): 	at android.view.ViewRootImpl.performTraversals(ViewRootImpl.java:2032)
W/System.err( 6531): 	at android.view.ViewRootImpl.doTraversal(ViewRootImpl.java:1191)
W/System.err( 6531): 	at android.view.ViewRootImpl$TraversalRunnable.run(ViewRootImpl.java:6642)
W/System.err( 6531): 	at android.view.Choreographer$CallbackRecord.run(Choreographer.java:777)
W/System.err( 6531): 	at android.view.Choreographer.doCallbacks(Choreographer.java:590)
W/System.err( 6531): 	at android.view.Choreographer.doFrame(Choreographer.java:560)
W/System.err( 6531): 	at android.view.Choreographer$FrameDisplayEventReceiver.run(Choreographer.java:763)
W/System.err( 6531): 	at android.os.Handler.handleCallback(Handler.java:739)
W/System.err( 6531): 	at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:95)
W/System.err( 6531): 	at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:145)
W/System.err( 6531): 	at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:5951)
W/System.err( 6531): 	at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
W/System.err( 6531): 	at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:372)
W/System.err( 6531): 	at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:1400)
W/System.err( 6531): 	at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:1195)
W/InputMethodManagerService( 3283): Focus gain on non-focused client com.android.internal.view.IInputMethodClient$Stub$Proxy@3440e7c4 (uid=10059 pid=6531)
I/ActivityManager( 3283): Killing 6531:org.qtproject.example.appv2/u0a59 (adj 15): empty #31


"org.qtproject.example.appv2" died.

@sierdzio said in Not possible to deploy for Android:

Hm, manifest looks okay. At runtime your main activity is not found, which might mean some missing app template code perhaps (I’m not sure, I haven’t seen this error before). But androiddeployqt provides a default template if one is missing in the app code. So, I don’t know, sorry.

Well I will try with newer NDK version then.

But I have a question. I used android-21 here but i dont know should I use android-28 and choose both target and minimum to 21 again.

And which version should I select at «target sdk». I dont get the purpose of that.

If you are compiling for ARM64, you should definitely use target API 28.

A very general hint:

• target API — always use newest
• minimal API — check which oldest Android version is still quite popular (~10% market share) and choose the corresponding API

I dont get the purpose of that.

Read Android documentation, then.

I updated NDK to latest but didn’t work.

Then I changed SDK to 28 from 21, then It compiled. There should be a bug in lower version SDKs I guess.