[BUG] AAPT2 fails with --no-proguard-location-reference

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Hey there!

I'm currently trying to patch a application which has ressource issues. I therefore used your sample-project for broken ressources but i'm running in the following error while rebuilding ressources with aapt2 (the one bundeled with apktool 2.4.1):

AAPT: unknown option '--no-proguard-location-reference'.


aapt2 link [options] -o arg --manifest arg files...

... [aapt2 help is shown]

I'm currently running on

• Gradle 4.0.2
• Dexpatcher-Gradle 2.1.3
• Dexpatcher 1.8.0-beta1
• Apktool 2.4.1

I read though quite a lot of release notes and issues on your repositories but could not find a working solution. Trying to add android.enableJvmResourceCompiler=true to the gradle.properties resulted in a java.lang.IllegalStateException: TODO

Thank you in advance!

Edit: Tried out switching versions of apktool (from 2.3.4 - 2.4.2), aapt2 and so on. No success there. Also tried to switch to the applib-sample, there dex2jar throws a error as it is not capable of converting the dex file.

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Update: I got it to work using the patched-dex sample. As dex2jar was throwing an error, i disabled it using the key

dexpatcherConfig.dex2jar {
    handleExceptions = true
}

which translates to the command line switch --not-handle-exception. Seems like this variable has the wrong initial value.