{"id":313,"date":"2011-11-28T10:28:35","date_gmt":"2011-11-28T14:28:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eqsim.com\/blog\/?p=313"},"modified":"2011-11-28T13:25:43","modified_gmt":"2011-11-28T17:25:43","slug":"fdt5-problem-solved-application-descriptor-not-found-compiling-mobile-project-on-desktop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.eqsim.com\/blog\/fdt5-problem-solved-application-descriptor-not-found-compiling-mobile-project-on-desktop\/","title":{"rendered":"FDT5 Problem Solved – ‘application descriptor not found’ – compiling mobile project on desktop"},"content":{"rendered":"

I really like working in FDT5 and was eager to try out mobile app development. The first test I did I had no problem, then all of a sudden, any new app was not launching, giving the error:<\/p>\n

application descriptor not found<\/span><\/p>\n

I thought it was a machine-to-machine problem, i.e., working on my desktop and not on my laptop, then I found I had an app on my desktop that would run but not a new project. Hmm. It looked like the arguments to the adl call was not handled properly. In the correctly working version, the output was:<\/div>\n

adl.exe
\n<\/code>-nodebug
\n<\/span>-profile
\n<\/span>mobileDevice
\n<\/span>-screensize
\n<\/span>480×816:480×854
\n<\/span>C:\\Users\\Jonathan\\workspace\\workingapp\\bin\/workingapp-app.xml
\n<\/span>C:\\Users\\Jonathan\\workspace\\workingapp\\bin<\/span><\/p>\n

but in the non-working (new) app, the output was:<\/div>\n

adl.exe
\n<\/code>-nodebug
\n<\/span>-profile
\n<\/span>mobileDevice
\n<\/span>-screensize
\n<\/span>480×816:480×854
\n<\/span>C:\\Users\\Jonathan\\workspace\\trycompile
\n<\/span>C:\\Users\\Jonathan\\workspace\\trycompile\\bin<\/span><\/p>\n

so it seemed an adl argument issue. This was not immediately obvious to me, even reaching this point took a couple of hours. I had also found this recent FDT bug report on JIRA<\/a>.<\/div>\n

Solution<\/h2>\n
I started mucking around with compiler settings, and eventually tracked it down into the .settings > launch<\/code> folder, for my app called “trycompile”, the file .settings > launch > trycompile.launch<\/code>. In the working version, FDT had inserted the line:<\/div>\n
\n

<stringAttribute key=\"ADL_DESCRIPTOR_FILE\" value=\"bin\/workingapp-app.xml\"\/><\/code><\/p>\n

but this was absent in the non-working file. So I added the following line to that file:<\/p>\n

<stringAttribute key=\"ADL_DESCRIPTOR_FILE\" value=\"bin\/trycompile-app.xml\"\/><\/code><\/p>\n

When I added that line, the project worked (both desktop and laptop). Yay for me!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I really like working in FDT5 and was eager to try out mobile app development. The first test I did I had no problem, then all of a sudden, any new app was not launching, giving the error: application descriptor not found<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.eqsim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.eqsim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.eqsim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.eqsim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.eqsim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=313"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.eqsim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":321,"href":"http:\/\/www.eqsim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313\/revisions\/321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.eqsim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.eqsim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.eqsim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}