{"id":4621,"date":"2017-10-20T19:37:44","date_gmt":"2017-10-20T11:37:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/unitycoder.com\/blog\/?p=4621"},"modified":"2017-10-26T10:53:51","modified_gmt":"2017-10-26T02:53:51","slug":"android-build-error-error-string-types-not-allowed-at-configchanges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitycoder.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/20\/android-build-error-error-string-types-not-allowed-at-configchanges\/","title":{"rendered":"Android Build Error: Error: String types not allowed (at ‘configChanges’.."},"content":{"rendered":"

Tried to build simple Cardboard + GVR scene with Unity 2017.3b4, but kept getting this error:<\/p>\n

CommandInvokationFailure: Failed to re-package resources.
\n***\\android-sdk\\build-tools\\25.0.2\\aapt.exe package –auto-add-overlay -v -f -m -J “gen” -M “AndroidManifest.xml” -S “res” -I “***android-sdk\\platforms\\android-23\\android.jar” -F bin\/resources.ap_ –extra-packages com.google.vr.cardboard:com.unity3d.unitygvr -S “***Game\\Temp\\StagingArea\\android-libraries\\gvr\\res” -S “***Game\\Temp\\StagingArea\\android-libraries\\unitygvr\\res”<\/p>\n

stderr[
\nAndroidManifest.xml:5: error: Error: String types not allowed (at ‘configChanges’ with value ‘mcc|mnc|locale|touchscreen|keyboard|keyboardHidden|navigation|orientation|screenLayout|uiMode|screenSize|smallestScreenSize|fontScale|layoutDirection|density’).
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What I tried<\/strong>
\n– Modifying the AndroidManifest.xml configChanges line or even deleting the whole xml, but that didn’t help
\n– Tried deleting some unused stuff from GVR plugin, that apparently use some newer features, permission demo and those(?)
\n– Updated Java JDK to v9, but later founded out that v9 doesn’t work with Unity (CommandInvokationFailure: Failed to build apk. Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: sun.misc.BASE64Encoder), more info: http:\/\/answers.unity3d.com\/answers\/1416130\/view.html<\/a> , so installed v8 instead (x64) http:\/\/www.oracle.com\/technetwork\/java\/javase\/downloads\/jdk8-downloads-2133151.html<\/a>
\n– Tried running updates on SDK Manager, tried building different API levels from 19 up to 26<\/p>\n

Solution<\/strong>
\n– run SDK Manager, install SDK Platform (API 26), apparently mine was still API 23, although i was building for API 19..<\/p>\n

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 <\/p>\n

More Info<\/strong>
\n– About JDK9 incompatibility https:\/\/forum.unity.com\/threads\/java-9-jdk-9-support-by-unity-android.499354\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tried to build simple Cardboard + GVR scene with Unity 2017.3b4, but kept getting this error: CommandInvokationFailure: Failed to re-package resources. ***\\android-sdk\\build-tools\\25.0.2\\aapt.exe package –auto-add-overlay -v -f -m -J “gen” -M “AndroidManifest.xml” -S “res” -I “***android-sdk\\platforms\\android-23\\android.jar” -F bin\/resources.ap_ –extra-packages com.google.vr.cardboard:com.unity3d.unitygvr -S “***Game\\Temp\\StagingArea\\android-libraries\\gvr\\res” -S “***Game\\Temp\\StagingArea\\android-libraries\\unitygvr\\res” stderr[ AndroidManifest.xml:5: […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4622,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Android Build Error: Error: String types not allowed (at 'configChanges'..","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[197,610,1012,1013],"class_list":["post-4621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-android","tag-apk","tag-build-error","tag-failed-to-re-package-resources"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/unitycoder.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/sdk-update.png?fit=1232%2C935&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1KTaT-1cx","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitycoder.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitycoder.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitycoder.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitycoder.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitycoder.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4621"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/unitycoder.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4621\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4628,"href":"https:\/\/unitycoder.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4621\/revisions\/4628"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitycoder.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitycoder.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitycoder.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitycoder.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}