Anysoftkeyboard: Unable to build the project in android studio

[Kalim06]

Hello, I am unable to build the project successfully. Downloaded the master branch and tried to build it in two different PC, but getting the same error.

The parser file is throwing 12 errors.

I am using Android version 3.6 with Windows 10.

Any guidance on how to build the project successfully would be really helpful.

[menny]

I think that your windows machine is configured to use CP1252 encoding. It should use utf-8.

Can you check to see if you can configure Android-Studio to use UTF-8 encoding?

[Kalim06]

It's using UTF-8 Encoding only. Yet I changed every encoding to UTF-8 and tried to rebuild the project.

Still getting the same error.

[kurdikeyboard]

I have this issues too since version 1.10 of project 🤷‍♂️

[Kalim06]

I cloned the branch of 1.09 version using git checkout 1862335. It built successfully just threw the ndk error. Downloading the ndk mentioned in the development should fix that. I will update the progress.

[Cyberman-tM]

I cloned the branch of 1.09 version using git checkout 1862335. It built successfully just threw the ndk error. Downloading the ndk mentioned in the development should fix that. I will update the progress.

Just to make sure - that is ndk 14b, which is considered (by Android) to be outdated?
[edit]This isn't meant as an critism to anyone specific, it's just that there is a big warning that basically says "Don't go there! Old stuff, bad!"

[subwayeetfresh]

Still getting this error, any help?

[menny]

I've done some work to upgrade the code and toolings to use Java 11.

So, first make sure you have Java11 install and set as default java.
Second, point your Android Studio JDK location to Java 11. (From the menu: File > Project Structure > JDK Location.)

This should fix all the issues.

I also updated the docs: https://github.com/AnySoftKeyboard/AnySoftKeyboard/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#development

[subwayeetfresh]

Still not fixing it :(

[kurdikeyboard]

I've done some work to upgrade the code and toolings to use Java 11.

So, first make sure you have Java11 install and set as default java.
Second, point your Android Studio JDK location to Java 11. (From the menu: File > Project Structure > JDK Location.)

This should fix all the issues.

I also updated the docs: https://github.com/AnySoftKeyboard/AnySoftKeyboard/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#development

I tried this way but still not fixed the Parser.java issues!

[KalimDalwai]

Tried

I've done some work to upgrade the code and toolings to use Java 11.

So, first make sure you have Java11 install and set as default java.
Second, point your Android Studio JDK location to Java 11. (From the menu: File > Project Structure > JDK Location.)

This should fix all the issues.

I also updated the docs: https://github.com/AnySoftKeyboard/AnySoftKeyboard/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#development

I tried to build the project by the methods mentioned in the docs still getting parser error.

Anything wrong in setting the JDK or NDK ???

[menny]

Seems like Android-Studio (or your OS) is trying to read the source file with windows-1252 encoding. Which is not the case. The entire repo is UTF-8.

Can you check: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/30184062/android-studio-project-encoding-default-value#:~:text=File%20%2D%3E%20Other%20Settings%20%2D%3E,Project%20Encoding%20to%20UTF%2D8.&text=Go%20through%20File%20%2D%3E%20Settings%20%2D,Encodings%20in%20your%20Android%20Studio.

Does this help?

[KalimDalwai]

Seems like Android-Studio (or your OS) is trying to read the source file with windows-1252 encoding. Which is not the case. The entire repo is UTF-8.

Can you check: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/30184062/android-studio-project-encoding-default-value#:~:text=File%20%2D%3E%20Other%20Settings%20%2D%3E,Project%20Encoding%20to%20UTF%2D8.&text=Go%20through%20File%20%2D%3E%20Settings%20%2D,Encodings%20in%20your%20Android%20Studio.

Does this help?

It's already UTF-8 you can check in the bottom right corner that the android studio is displaying its File encoding of the above reply.
Yet the issue still remains

Checked out the link you provide and set the setting as above. Still not building.

[axelock]

Hi there! I had the same UTF-8 problem and i have find a solution after hours of internet digging:
Set this environment variable:
GRADLE_OPTS="-Dfile.encoding=utf-8"

[menny]

@axelock that's amazing! Thank you. Can you add that to https://github.com/AnySoftKeyboard/AnySoftKeyboard/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md?

[Kalim06]

Hi there! I had the same UTF-8 problem and i have find a solution after hours of internet digging:
Set this environment variable:
GRADLE_OPTS="-Dfile.encoding=utf-8"

Hi @axelock can you share some steps on how to set it or share a screenshot????