When trying to upload .aab file got: ERROR: APK does not contain 'AndroidManifest.xml'

[chenop]

Thanks for this package - great tool for deploying!

Tried to do the following:

apkup 
  --key ./key.json 
  --apk /path/to/app-release.aab 

[nprail]

@chenop What version of apkup are you using? AAB support was introduced in 1.3.0.

Based on the error message, it sounds like it is trying to parse the AAB as an APK. That should only happen if the file extension is .apk. Or if the apkup version is earlier than 1.3.

[chenop]

Appreciate your effort to help.

apkup: 1.3.0 java: Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 14.0.2+12-46)

Still got the: ERROR: APK does not contain 'AndroidManifest.xml'

[nprail]

Interesting. Try again but first run:

export DEBUG=apkup:*

Then paste the full output here. Make sure you redact any sensitive info, though 🙂

[chenop]

➜  scripts > export DEBUG=apkup:*
➜  scripts > apkup --key ./key.json --track beta --apk /path/to/release/app-release.aab 
⠋ Uploading APK...  apkup:helpers > Parsing manifest +0ms
ERROR: APK does not contain 'AndroidManifest.xml'

[nprail]

@chenop Is that the entire output?

There should be another line that is something to the effect of:

apkup:helpers > File path ${apkFile}

After that, it checks the file extension with path.extname and parses either as an AAB or an APK. It seems that it is trying to parse the AAB as an APK.

https://github.com/eventOneHQ/apkup/blob/master/src/helpers.ts#L28

[chenop]

Ok, what happens is that there was an old apkup installed globally...

Once I've uninstalled it - things started to work. Sorry for this and thank you for your support!

[nprail]

Ah, that would explain it! I was pretty confused as to why that would have been happening :)

No problem, I'm glad to help!