I recently upgraded the Android SDK on our build machine, and now Android builds using Ant fail with the obscure message:
The <apply> type doesn't support the nested "path" element.
Our build.xml is the standard one generated by Android tools, and we automatically run
android update project -p .
before Ant runs the debug task.
The error message appears during the -dex phase of the build process.
Since this buildfile is using one of the standard Android templates, I'm not sure what's causing this change in behavior. Any ideas?
Never mind, I figured it out. Seems that Android version 8 or higher now require you to have ant 1.8 or higher (I was still using 1.6.5). The fix was simply to upgrade my ant installation to the latest version.