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Qualtrics Android SDK: 403 Forbidden error fetching aapt2:9.4.1-15703166

  • September 29, 2026
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Hi Qualtrics Team,

We are encountering a build failure in our CI environment (GitHub Actions) when resolving dependencies for the Qualtrics Android SDK from your hosted Maven S3 repository (https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/si-mobile-sdks/android/).

During the build, Gradle attempts to download aapt2:9.4.1-15703166 from your S3 repository and fails with a 403 Forbidden response. This was completely fine until yesterday. 

Exact Error Log:

Could not resolve com.android.tools.build:aapt2:9.4.1-15703166.
> Could not GET 'https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/si-mobile-sdks/android/com/android/tools/build/aapt2/9.4.1-15703166/aapt2-9.4.1-15703166.pom'. Received status code 403 from server: Forbidden

Could you please check the permissions on this artifact path in your S3 repository so we can resolve this build issue?

Thank you!