Error retrieving parent for item: No resource found that matches the given name 'Widget.AppCompat.Base'.

[Xigui Wang]

I decompiled the target apk successfully. When I built the apk with apktool ,I got the error from the terminal. 

can anyone offer some help ? thanks

what I did is decompiled the apk and then built it with nothing else done. I got following error:

dell@OptiPlex-7010:~/apktool/apktool-install-linux-r05-ibot$ ./apktool d shoujitaobao_98.apk taobao

I: Baksmaling...

I: Loading resource table...

I: Loaded.

I: Decoding AndroidManifest.xml with resources...

I: Loading resource table from file: /home/dell/apktool/framework/1.apk

I: Loaded.

I: Regular manifest package...

I: Decoding file-resources...

I: Decoding values */* XMLs...

I: Done.

I: Copying assets and libs...

dell@OptiPlex-7010:~/apktool/apktool-install-linux-r05-ibot$ ./apktool b taobao/ taobao.apk

I: Checking whether sources has changed...

I: Smaling...

I: Checking whether resources has changed...

I: Building resources...

/home/dell/apktool/apktool-install-linux-r05-ibot/taobao/res/values/styles.xml:482: error: Error retrieving parent for item: No resource found that matches the given name 'Widget.AppCompat.Base'.

/home/dell/apktool/apktool-install-linux-r05-ibot/taobao/res/values/styles.xml:522: error: Error retrieving parent for item: No resource found that matches the given name 'Widget.AppCompat.Base'.

/home/dell/apktool/apktool-install-linux-r05-ibot/taobao/res/values/styles.xml:570: error: Error retrieving parent for item: No resource found that matches the given name 'Widget.AppCompat.Base'.

/home/dell/apktool/apktool-install-linux-r05-ibot/taobao/res/values/styles.xml:627: error: Error retrieving parent for item: No resource found that matches the given name 'Widget.AppCompat.Base'.

/home/dell/apktool/apktool-install-linux-r05-ibot/taobao/res/values/styles.xml:643: error: Error retrieving parent for item: No resource found that matches the given name 'Widget.AppCompat.Base.DropDownItem'.

/home/dell/apktool/apktool-install-linux-r05-ibot/taobao/res/values/styles.xml:671: error: Error retrieving parent for item: No resource found that matches the given name 'Widget.AppCompat.Base'.

/home/dell/apktool/apktool-install-linux-r05-ibot/taobao/res/values/styles.xml:678: error: Error retrieving parent for item: No resource found that matches the given name 'Widget.AppCompat.Light.Base'.

/home/dell/apktool/apktool-install-linux-r05-ibot/taobao/res/values/styles.xml:697: error: Error retrieving parent for item: No resource found that matches the given name 'TextAppearance.AppCompat.Base'.

/home/dell/apktool/apktool-install-linux-r05-ibot/taobao/res/values/styles.xml:730: error: Error retrieving parent for item: No resource found that matches the given name 'Widget.AppCompat.Base'.

/home/dell/apktool/apktool-install-linux-r05-ibot/taobao/res/values/styles.xml:929: error: Error retrieving parent for item: No resource found that matches the given name 'Theme.AppCompat.Base'.

Exception in thread "main" brut.androlib.AndrolibException: brut.androlib.AndrolibException: brut.common.BrutException: could not exec command: [aapt, p, --min-sdk-version, 9, --target-sdk-version, 18, -F, /tmp/APKTOOL7573506387137728715.tmp, -0, arsc, -I, /home/dell/apktool/framework/1.apk, -S, /home/dell/apktool/apktool-install-linux-r05-ibot/taobao/res, -M, /home/dell/apktool/apktool-install-linux-r05-ibot/taobao/AndroidManifest.xml]

at brut.androlib.Androlib.buildResourcesFull(Androlib.java:358)

at brut.androlib.Androlib.buildResources(Androlib.java:283)

at brut.androlib.Androlib.build(Androlib.java:206)

at brut.androlib.Androlib.build(Androlib.java:176)

at brut.apktool.Main.cmdBuild(Main.java:228)

at brut.apktool.Main.main(Main.java:79)

Caused by: brut.androlib.AndrolibException: brut.common.BrutException: could not exec command: [aapt, p, --min-sdk-version, 9, --target-sdk-version, 18, -F, /tmp/APKTOOL7573506387137728715.tmp, -0, arsc, -I, /home/dell/apktool/framework/1.apk, -S, /home/dell/apktool/apktool-install-linux-r05-ibot/taobao/res, -M, /home/dell/apktool/apktool-install-linux-r05-ibot/taobao/AndroidManifest.xml]

at brut.androlib.res.AndrolibResources.aaptPackage(AndrolibResources.java:357)

at brut.androlib.Androlib.buildResourcesFull(Androlib.java:336)

... 5 more

Caused by: brut.common.BrutException: could not exec command: [aapt, p, --min-sdk-version, 9, --target-sdk-version, 18, -F, /tmp/APKTOOL7573506387137728715.tmp, -0, arsc, -I, /home/dell/apktool/framework/1.apk, -S, /home/dell/apktool/apktool-install-linux-r05-ibot/taobao/res, -M, /home/dell/apktool/apktool-install-linux-r05-ibot/taobao/AndroidManifest.xml]

at brut.util.OS.exec(OS.java:89)

at brut.androlib.res.AndrolibResources.aaptPackage(AndrolibResources.java:355)

... 6 more