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Android

Posted by Timothy Boland
Timothy Boland
18,237 Points

Ribbit | Recieving errors on the drawable images when building. Not sure how these are occuring

These errors are occuring whenever I build the app. Im re-walking through the "Implementing Designs for Android" course to see what I may be missing...but I dont think Im missing anything. Has anybody seen this? 

/Ribbit/app/src/main/res/drawable-xxxhdpi/background_fill.png: libpng warning: iCCP: Not recognizing known sRGB profile that has been edited
/Ribbit/app/src/main/res/drawable-hdpi/cab_background_bottom_ribbit.9.png
Error:Ticks in transparent frame must be black or red. - Found at pixel #8 along top edge.
       Ticks in transparent frame must be black or red.
       Found at pixel #20 along top edge.
/Ribbit/app/src/main/res/drawable-xxhdpi/background_fill.png: libpng warning: iCCP: Not recognizing known sRGB profile that has been edited
/Ribbit/app/src/main/res/drawable-xhdpi/background_fill.png: libpng warning: iCCP: Not recognizing known sRGB profile that has been edited
/Ribbit/app/src/main/res/drawable-hdpi/cab_background_top_ribbit.9.png
Error:Ticks in transparent frame must be black or red. - Found at pixel #8 along top edge.
/Ribbit/app/src/main/res/drawable-hdpi/btn_cab_done_focused_ribbit.9.png
Error:Ticks in transparent frame must be black or red. - Found at pixel #2 along top edge.
/Ribbit/app/src/main/res/drawable-mdpi/cab_background_top_ribbit.9.png
Error:Ticks in transparent frame must be black or red. - Found at pixel #8 along top edge.
       Ticks in transparent frame must be black or red.
       Found at pixel #2 along top edge.
/Ribbit/app/src/main/res/drawable-xxxhdpi/background.png: libpng warning: iCCP: Not recognizing known sRGB profile that has been edited
/Ribbit/app/src/main/res/drawable-mdpi/cab_background_bottom_ribbit.9.png
Error:Ticks in transparent frame must be black or red. - Found at pixel #8 along top edge.
       Ticks in transparent frame must be black or red.
       Found at pixel #20 along top edge.
Error:Failed to run command:
    /sdk/build-tools/23.0.1/aapt s -i /Ribbit/app/src/main/res/drawable-hdpi/cab_background_bottom_ribbit.9.png -o /Ribbit/app/build/intermediates/res/debug/drawable-hdpi-v4/cab_background_bottom_ribbit.9.png
Error Code:
    42
Output:
Error:9-patch image /Ribbit/app/src/main/res/drawable-hdpi/cab_background_bottom_ribbit.9.png malformed.
           Ticks in transparent frame must be black or red.
           Found at pixel #8 along top edge.
:app:mergeDebugResources FAILED
Error:Execution failed for task ':app:mergeDebugResources'.
> Error: Failed to run command:
    /sdk/build-tools/23.0.1/aapt s -i /Ribbit/app/src/main/res/drawable-hdpi/cab_background_bottom_ribbit.9.png -o /Ribbit/app/build/intermediates/res/debug/drawable-hdpi-v4/cab_background_bottom_ribbit.9.png
  Error Code:
    42
  Output:
    ERROR: 9-patch image /Ribbit/app/src/main/res/drawable-hdpi/cab_background_bottom_ribbit.9.png malformed.
           Ticks in transparent frame must be black or red.
           Found at pixel #8 along top edge.

1 Answer

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

This is the first I've seen it. Are there pixels in the frame (1 pixel border of the image) that aren't red or black? If there are, you could probably fix this by making those pixels transparent. Also, if you'd rather just move on than deal with modifying images it looks like you can change the file name from .9.png to .png and that will make the errors go away. The drawback would be that the image won't scale like a 9 patch anymore.

Also, during what video do you first get these errors? I'd love for you to be the last person to run into this issue :)

Timothy Boland
Timothy Boland
18,237 Points

Actually...Ive finished this project along time ago...It only happend recently when i decided to reopen it to update it to the latest android sdk and build tools to see if it works on a Marshmallow Emulator.

As far as I know there shouldnt be anything wrong with the images...so it may be a problem with how the latest sdk is handling these 9 patch images