android.presplash_color bug

[pynting]

Not sure if this is a universal problem, but building my app failed when i uncommented the "android.presplash_color" setting in the buildozer.spec file.

Relevant log:

[DEBUG]:        > Task :mergeDebugResources FAILED
[DEBUG]:        /.buildozer/android/platform/build-arm64-v8a_armeabi-v7a/dists/kr/src/main/res/values/strings.xml:3:4: Failed to flatten XML for resource 'presplash_color' with error: Invalid unicode escape sequence in string
[DEBUG]:        "{str}"
[DEBUG]:        /.buildozer/android/platform/build-arm64-v8a_armeabi-v7a/dists/kr/src/main/res/values/strings.xml:3:4: string/presplash_color does not contain a valid string resource.

And indeed, in the referenced file:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<resources>
    <string name="app_name">Kr</string>
    <string name="private_version">c8a851e76193bfc03b01e371acf67e0f938ddcba</string>
    <string name="presplash_color">'aqua'</string>
    <string name="urlScheme">kivy</string>
</resources>

Problem lies in the buildozer file android.py:

        # support for presplash background color
        presplash_color = self.buildozer.config.getdefault('app', 'android.presplash_color', None)
        if presplash_color:
            cmd.append('--presplash-color')
            cmd.append("'{}'".format(presplash_color))

Changed
cmd.append("'{}'".format(presplash_color))
into
cmd.append("{}".format(presplash_color))
solved the issue for me

Versions

• Python: 3.10
• OS: Fedora
• Buildozer: 1.4.1.dev0

[Olamidipupo-favour]

I had similar issues.

[Apacelus]

I made a pr to fix this

[pynting]

Perfect! Do I close this issue, or should the administrator(s) do it?

[Apacelus]

Perfect! Do I close this issue, or should the administrator(s) do it?

Let them do it, or close it after they accept my pr

[Apacelus]

@pynting my pr was merged, you can close this issue now

[misl6]

Closed via #1497