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I meant issue 36911326, hope the hotlinking works now.

Using this in my build:

aaptOptions {
  ignoreAssetsPattern "!about.html!.svn:!.git:!.ds_store:!*.scc:.*:<dir>_*:!CVS:!thumbs.db:!picasa.ini:!*~"
}

It looks like it's very close, but instead of "--ignore-assets", it's using "---ignore-assets" (3 dashes instead of 2).

unbelievable that this is still not fixed. it is common convention to prefix files with _ (underscore).

adding: aapt.ignore.assets="!.svn:!.git:.*:!CVS:!thumbs.db:!picasa.ini:!*.scc:*~"
to ant.properties doesn't help to copy directories starting with underscores to android_assets directory.

pls. fix it

Any workarounds for this issue? Tentative date when this will be fixed?

I suppose the ADT build uses the APKBuilder.bat file in the sdk/tools folder. When followed through, was surprised to see folder names hard coded in

com/android/jarutils/JavaResourceFilter.java

 /**
* Checks whether a folder and its content is valid for packaging into the .apk as
* standard Java resource.
* @param folderName the name of the folder.
*/
public static boolean checkFolderForPackaging(String folderName) {
return folderName.equals("CVS") == false &&
folderName.equals(".svn") == false &&
folderName.equals("SCCS") == false &&
folderName.equals("META-INF") == false &&
folderName.startsWith("_") == false;
}

This should ideally be checking the aapt.ignore.assets  property.

Has this issue been fixed? If not, when is going to be addressed?

Absolutely ridiculous that no one can come up at least with an acceptable explanation since 2009...  pffff.. Well done android... :)

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