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@Popolon gradle is still in the extra repository

https://archlinux.org/packages/?q=gradle

Gradle package doesn't exists anymore, maybe it can be replaced by AUR gradle4?

Looks like classyshark (there is an AUR package) is replacing apktool, at least for analysis.

@rusball make sure to use git+pkgctl build or make sure to clean your AUR helper cache.

When i'm trying to install android-apktool from aur, it installs to me android-apktool-2.7.0-1

Thanks a bunch @Muflone!

@Auerhuhn I've temporarily applied your fix to pin jdk to version 21

Hi @Muflone,

Since jdk-openjdk was bumped from version 23 to 24, this build has been failing:

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

* What went wrong:
Could not determine the dependencies of task ':check'.
> Could not create task ':test'.
   > Could not create task of type 'Test'.
      > Could not create an instance of type org.gradle.api.internal.tasks.testing.DefaultTestTaskReports.
         > Could not create an instance of type org.gradle.api.reporting.internal.DefaultReportContainer.
            > Type T not present

Pinning the makedepends entry to Java 21 fixes it:

diff --git a/PKGBUILD b/PKGBUILD
index 418c928..fbb0e1d 100644
--- a/PKGBUILD
+++ b/PKGBUILD
@@ -4,17 +4,19 @@
 pkgname=android-apktool
 pkgver=2.11.1
 pkgrel=1
+_jdkver=21
 pkgdesc="a tool for reengineering Android apk files"
 arch=('any')
 url="https://github.com/iBotPeaches/Apktool"
 license=('Apache-2.0')
 depends=('java-runtime')
-makedepends=('java-environment' 'gradle')
+makedepends=("jdk${_jdkver}-openjdk" 'gradle')
 source=("${pkgname}-${pkgver}.tar.gz"::"https://github.com/iBotPeaches/Apktool/archive/refs/tags/v${pkgver}.tar.gz")
 sha256sums=('1c1ac3add61c5d9043b5efdb228fbd2be7c3bd329bb6ed82228eedacef90bcb9')

 build() {
   cd "Apktool-${pkgver}"
+  export JAVA_HOME="/usr/lib/jvm/java-${_jdkver}-openjdk"
   gradle build --no-daemon shadowJar proguard
 }

@Mitmischer this package uses the sources from the author while android-apktool-bin uses a prebuilt package

What is the difference between this and android-apktool-bin?

I did a careful comparison between the Arch and Artix jdk-openjdk and gradle packages, and as far as I can tell, they are identical. The only explanation I can come up with is that somehow makechroopkg from Arch's devtools somehow works differently from mkchrootpkg from Artix's artools-pkg. And as to that, I haven't the vaguest idea how.

I did figure out that the tests were failing for me in part because /usr/lib/jvm/java-21-openjdk/lib/libawt_xawt.so depends, per ldd, on a bunch of libraries that aren't named as dependencies, in particular libxext, libxrender, and libxtst; and installing those did partially solve some of the problems. But then the tests started failing because, as far as I can tell, it wants access to the X server and can't get it, generating the error "java.awt.AWTError: Can't connect to X11 window server using ':0' as the value of the DISPLAY variable", which the internet proved completely unhelpful about solving. After doing a lot of irritating install-random-stuff and eventually using Xvfb to generate some kind of headless display situation that I don't understand, gradle would announce that the build succeeded than then proceed to hang forever. I give up, I'm not clever enough to comprehend what in tarnation is going on here, although it if has something to do with needing a running X server for some asinine reason, I guess that would make some kind of twisted sense.

So I just don't get it, but adding "-x test" to the end of the gradle build line to simply skip the tests entirely works perfectly for me.