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Android

Daniel Meles
Daniel Meles
1,459 Points
Posted by Daniel Meles
Daniel Meles
1,459 Points

It keeps on giving me this pop-up saying No changes to deploy when I have made changes

I use the latest version of Android studio

Daniel Meles
Daniel Meles
1,459 Points
Daniel Meles
Daniel Meles
1,459 Points

After I closed Android Studio and ran the app again I go this error in the monitor Exception in thread '''pngcruncher_18 java.lang.RuntimeException: Timed out while waiting for slave aapt process, make sure the aapt execute at C:\Users\Danie\AppData\Local\Android\Sdk\build-tools\24.0.1\aapt.exe can run successfully (some anti-virus may block it) or try setting environment variable SLAVE_AAPT_TIMEOUT to a value bigger than 5 seconds at com.android.builder.png.AaptProcess.waitForReady(AaptProcess.java:108) at com.android.builder.png.QueuedCruncher$1.creation(QueuedCruncher.java:110) at com.android.builder.tasks.WorkQueue.run(WorkQueue.java:203) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745) Exception in thread "png-cruncher_4" java.lang.RuntimeException: Timed out while waiting for slave aapt process, make sure the aapt execute at C:\Users\Danie\AppData\Local\Android\Sdk\build-tools\24.0.1\aapt.exe can run successfully (some anti-virus may block it) or try setting environment variable SLAVE_AAPT_TIMEOUT to a value bigger than 5 seconds at com.android.builder.png.AaptProcess.waitForReady(AaptProcess.java:108) at com.android.builder.png.QueuedCruncher$1.creation(QueuedCruncher.java:110) at com.android.builder.tasks.WorkQueue.run(WorkQueue.java:203) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745) Exception in thread "png-cruncher_19" java.lang.RuntimeException: Timed out while waiting for slave aapt process, make sure the aapt execute at C:\Users\Danie\AppData\Local\Android\Sdk\build-tools\24.0.1\aapt.exe can run successfully (some anti-virus may block it) or try setting environment variable SLAVE_AAPT_TIMEOUT to a value bigger than 5 seconds at com.android.builder.png.AaptProcess.waitForReady(AaptProcess.java:108) at com.android.builder.png.QueuedCruncher$1.creation(QueuedCruncher.java:110) at com.android.builder.tasks.WorkQueue.run(WorkQueue.java:203) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745) Exception in thread "png-cruncher_20" java.lang.RuntimeException: Timed out while waiting for slave aapt process, make sure the aapt execute at C:\Users\Danie\AppData\Local\Android\Sdk\build-tools\24.0.1\aapt.exe can run successfully (some anti-virus may block it) or try setting environment variable SLAVE_AAPT_TIMEOUT to a value bigger than 5 seconds at com.android.builder.png.AaptProcess.waitForReady(AaptProcess.java:108) at com.android.builder.png.QueuedCruncher$1.creation(QueuedCruncher.java:110) at com.android.builder.tasks.WorkQueue.run(WorkQueue.java:203) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745) Exception in thread "png-cruncher_17" java.lang.RuntimeException: Timed out while waiting for slave aapt process, make sure the aapt execute at C:\Users\Danie\AppData\Local\Android\Sdk\build-tools\24.0.1\aapt.exe can run successfully (some anti-virus may block it) or try setting environment variable SLAVE_AAPT_TIMEOUT to a value bigger than 5 seconds at com.android.builder.png.AaptProcess.waitForReady(AaptProcess.java:108) at com.android.builder.png.QueuedCruncher$1.creation(QueuedCruncher.java:110) at com.android.builder.tasks.WorkQueue.run(WorkQueue.java:203) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745) Exception in thread "png-cruncher_16" java.lang.RuntimeException: Timed out while waiting for slave aapt process, make sure the aapt execute at C:\Users\Danie\AppData\Local\Android\Sdk\build-tools\24.0.1\aapt.exe can run successfully (some anti-virus may block it) or try setting environment variable SLAVE_AAPT_TIMEOUT to a value bigger than 5 seconds at com.android.builder.png.AaptProcess.waitForReady(AaptProcess.java:108) at com.android.builder.png.QueuedCruncher$1.creation(QueuedCruncher.java:110) at com.android.builder.tasks.WorkQueue.run(WorkQueue.java:203) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745) Exception in thread "png-cruncher_15" java.lang.RuntimeException: Timed out while waiting for slave aapt process, make sure the aapt execute at C:\Users\Danie\AppData\Local\Android\Sdk\build-tools\24.0.1\aapt.exe can run successfully (some anti-virus may block it) or try setting environment variable SLAVE_AAPT_TIMEOUT to a value bigger than 5 seconds at com.android.builder.png.AaptProcess.waitForReady(AaptProcess.java:108) at com.android.builder.png.QueuedCruncher$1.creation(QueuedCruncher.java:110) at com.android.builder.tasks.WorkQueue.run(WorkQueue.java:203) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745) Exception in thread "png-cruncher_13" java.lang.RuntimeException: Timed out while waiting for slave aapt process, make sure the aapt execute at C:\Users\Danie\AppData\Local\Android\Sdk\build-tools\24.0.1\aapt.exe can run successfully (some anti-virus may block it) or try setting environment variable SLAVE_AAPT_TIMEOUT to a value bigger than 5 seconds at com.android.builder.png.AaptProcess.waitForReady(AaptProcess.java:108) at com.android.builder.png.QueuedCruncher$1.creation(QueuedCruncher.java:110) at com.android.builder.tasks.WorkQueue.run(WorkQueue.java:203) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745) Exception in thread "png-cruncher_11" java.lang.RuntimeException: Timed out while waiting for slave aapt process, make sure the aapt execute at C:\Users\Danie\AppData\Local\Android\Sdk\build-tools\24.0.1\aapt.exe can run successfully (some anti-virus may block it) or try setting environment variable SLAVE_AAPT_TIMEOUT to a value bigger than 5 seconds at com.android.builder.png.AaptProcess.waitForReady(AaptProcess.java:108) at com.android.builder.png.QueuedCruncher$1.creation(QueuedCruncher.java:110) at com.android.builder.tasks.WorkQueue.run(WorkQueue.java:203) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745) Exception in thread "png-cruncher_14" java.lang.RuntimeException: Timed out while waiting for slave aapt process, make sure the aapt execute at C:\Users\Danie\AppData\Local\Android\Sdk\build-tools\24.0.1\aapt.exe can run successfully (some anti-virus may block it) or try setting environment variable SLAVE_AAPT_TIMEOUT to a value bigger than 5 seconds at com.android.builder.png.AaptProcess.waitForReady(AaptProcess.java:108) at com.android.builder.png.QueuedCruncher$1.creation(QueuedCruncher.java:110) at com.android.builder.tasks.WorkQueue.run(WorkQueue.java:203) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745) Exception in thread "png-cruncher_12" java.lang.RuntimeException: Timed out while waiting for slave aapt process, make sure the aapt execute at C:\Users\Danie\AppData\Local\Android\Sdk\build-tools\24.0.1\aapt.exe can run successfully (some anti-virus may block it) or try setting environment variable SLAVE_AAPT_TIMEOUT to a value bigger than 5 seconds at com.android.builder.png.AaptProcess.waitForReady(AaptProcess.java:108) at com.android.builder.png.QueuedCruncher$1.creation(QueuedCruncher.java:110) at com.android.builder.tasks.WorkQueue.run(WorkQueue.java:203) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745) Exception in thread "png-cruncher_6" java.lang.RuntimeException: Timed out while waiting for slave aapt process, make sure the aapt execute at C:\Users\Danie\AppData\Local\Android\Sdk\build-tools\24.0.1\aapt.exe can run successfully (some anti-virus may block it) or try setting environment variable SLAVE_AAPT_TIMEOUT to a value bigger than 5 seconds at com.android.builder.png.AaptProcess.waitForReady(AaptProcess.java:108) at com.android.builder.png.QueuedCruncher$1.creation(QueuedCruncher.java:110) at com.android.builder.tasks.WorkQueue.run(WorkQueue.java:203) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745) Exception in thread "png-cruncher_10" java.lang.RuntimeException: Timed out while waiting for slave aapt process, make sure the aapt execute at C:\Users\Danie\AppData\Local\Android\Sdk\build-tools\24.0.1\aapt.exe can run successfully (some anti-virus may block it) or try setting environment variable SLAVE_AAPT_TIMEOUT to a value bigger than 5 seconds at com.android.builder.png.AaptProcess.waitForReady(AaptProcess.java:108) at com.android.builder.png.QueuedCruncher$1.creation(QueuedCruncher.java:110) at com.android.builder.tasks.WorkQueue.run(WorkQueue.java:203) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745) Exception in thread "png-cruncher_9" java.lang.RuntimeException: Timed out while waiting for slave aapt process, make sure the aapt execute at C:\Users\Danie\AppData\Local\Android\Sdk\build-tools\24.0.1\aapt.exe can run successfully (some anti-virus may block it) or try setting environment variable SLAVE_AAPT_TIMEOUT to a value bigger than 5 seconds at com.android.builder.png.AaptProcess.waitForReady(AaptProcess.java:108) at com.android.builder.png.QueuedCruncher$1.creation(QueuedCruncher.java:110) at com.android.builder.tasks.WorkQueue.run(WorkQueue.java:203) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745) Exception in thread "png-cruncher_8" java.lang.RuntimeException: Timed out while waiting for slave aapt process, make sure the aapt execute at C:\Users\Danie\AppData\Local\Android\Sdk\build-tools\24.0.1\aapt.exe can run successfully (some anti-virus may block it) or try setting environment variable SLAVE_AAPT_TIMEOUT to a value bigger than 5 seconds at com.android.builder.png.AaptProcess.waitForReady(AaptProcess.java:108) at com.android.builder.png.QueuedCruncher$1.creation(QueuedCruncher.java:110) at com.android.builder.tasks.WorkQueue.run(WorkQueue.java:203) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745) Exception in thread "png-cruncher_7" java.lang.RuntimeException: Timed out while waiting for slave aapt process, make sure the aapt execute at C:\Users\Danie\AppData\Local\Android\Sdk\build-tools\24.0.1\aapt.exe can run successfully (some anti-virus may block it) or try setting environment variable SLAVE_AAPT_TIMEOUT to a value bigger than 5 seconds at com.android.builder.png.AaptProcess.waitForReady(AaptProcess.java:108) at com.android.builder.png.QueuedCruncher$1.creation(QueuedCruncher.java:110) at com.android.builder.tasks.WorkQueue.run(WorkQueue.java:203) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745) Exception in thread "png-cruncher_1" java.lang.RuntimeException: Timed out while waiting for slave aapt process, make sure the aapt execute at C:\Users\Danie\AppData\Local\Android\Sdk\build-tools\24.0.1\aapt.exe can run successfully (some anti-virus may block it) or try setting environment variable SLAVE_AAPT_TIMEOUT to a value bigger than 5 seconds at com.android.builder.png.AaptProcess.waitForReady(AaptProcess.java:108) at com.android.builder.png.QueuedCruncher$1.creation(QueuedCruncher.java:110) at com.android.builder.tasks.WorkQueue.run(WorkQueue.java:203) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745) Exception in thread "png-cruncher_3" java.lang.RuntimeException: Timed out while waiting for slave aapt process, make sure the aapt execute at C:\Users\Danie\AppData\Local\Android\Sdk\build-tools\24.0.1\aapt.exe can run successfully (some anti-virus may block it) or try setting environment variable SLAVE_AAPT_TIMEOUT to a value bigger than 5 seconds at com.android.builder.png.AaptProcess.waitForReady(AaptProcess.java:108) at com.android.builder.png.QueuedCruncher$1.creation(QueuedCruncher.java:110) at com.android.builder.tasks.WorkQueue.run(WorkQueue.java:203) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745) Exception in thread "png-cruncher_2" java.lang.RuntimeException: Timed out while waiting for slave aapt process, make sure the aapt execute at C:\Users\Danie\AppData\Local\Android\Sdk\build-tools\24.0.1\aapt.exe can run successfully (some anti-virus may block it) or try setting environment variable SLAVE_AAPT_TIMEOUT to a value bigger than 5 seconds at com.android.builder.png.AaptProcess.waitForReady(AaptProcess.java:108) at com.android.builder.png.QueuedCruncher$1.creation(QueuedCruncher.java:110) at com.android.builder.tasks.WorkQueue.run(WorkQueue.java:203) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745) Exception in thread "png-cruncher_5" java.lang.RuntimeException: Timed out while waiting for slave aapt process, make sure the aapt execute at C:\Users\Danie\AppData\Local\Android\Sdk\build-tools\24.0.1\aapt.exe can run successfully (some anti-virus may block it) or try setting environment variable SLAVE_AAPT_TIMEOUT to a value bigger than 5 seconds at com.android.builder.png.AaptProcess.waitForReady(AaptProcess.java:108) at com.android.builder.png.QueuedCruncher$1.creation(QueuedCruncher.java:110) at com.android.builder.tasks.WorkQueue.run(WorkQueue.java:203) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745) '''

Ben Deitch
Ben Deitch
Treehouse Teacher
Ben Deitch
Ben Deitch
Treehouse Teacher

What happens if you hit the stop button (next to the 'Run' button) and then try running it again? This sounds like it probably has something to do with instant run or incremental building; both newer features of Android Studio, and both capable of some very strange bugs. Usually, just fully stopping/killing the app and then running it again gets things working. Other than that, I'd try cleaning your project and then rebuilding it, and if that doesn't work maybe try invalidating caches and restarting (under the 'File' menu).