AAPT error: resource drawable/... not found

Question

After recently upgrading my android studio, I am not able to build my project anymore.

Every time I execute a build, I am struck with the following error:

error: resource drawable/splash_screen (aka com.whereisthemonkey.nowalism:drawable/splash_screen) not found.
Message{kind=ERROR, text=error: resource drawable/splash_screen (aka com.whereisthemonkey.nowalism:drawable/splash_screen) not found., sources=[C:\Users\Lucas\.gradle\caches\transforms-1\files-1.1\appcompat-v7-27.1.1.aar\cf575568f869a44c685b16e47de83a28\res\values\values.xml:1632:5-84], original message=, tool name=Optional.of(AAPT)}

This error persists, even though the file splash_screen.xml exists under the drawable folder.

Rebuilding, cleaning the project and invalidating caches did not work!

Adding the line android.enableAapt2=false does not resolve the real issue and I would therefore rather find the root of the problem.

The following shows my gradle.build file:

apply plugin: 'com.android.application'

apply plugin: 'kotlin-android'

apply plugin: 'kotlin-android-extensions'

apply plugin: 'kotlin-kapt'//https://github.com/bumptech/glide/issues/1939

android {
    compileSdkVersion 27
    buildToolsVersion "27.0.3"
    defaultConfig {
        applicationId "com.whereisthemonkey.nowalism"
        minSdkVersion 19
        targetSdkVersion 27
        versionCode 1
        versionName "1.0"
        testInstrumentationRunner "android.support.test.runner.AndroidJUnitRunner"
        vectorDrawables.useSupportLibrary = true
    }
    // Keep the following configuration in order to target Java 8.
    compileOptions {
        sourceCompatibility JavaVersion.VERSION_1_8
        targetCompatibility JavaVersion.VERSION_1_8
    }
    buildTypes {
        release {
            minifyEnabled false
            proguardFiles getDefaultProguardFile('proguard-android.txt'), 'proguard-rules.pro'
        }
    }
    sourceSets {
        main {
            res.srcDirs += [
                    'src/main/res-backgrounds',
                    'src/main/res-jobs',
            ]
        }
    }
}

dependencies {
    implementation fileTree(dir: 'libs', include: ['*.jar'])
    implementation "org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-stdlib-jdk7:$kotlin_version"
    implementation 'com.android.support:appcompat-v7:27.1.1'
    implementation 'com.android.support:cardview-v7:27.1.1'
    implementation 'com.android.support:recyclerview-v7:27.1.1'
    implementation 'com.android.support:design:27.1.1'
    implementation 'com.android.support.constraint:constraint-layout:1.1.0'

    //Do not update due to dex error
    implementation 'org.apache.commons:commons-lang3:3.6'

    //Do not update due to dex error
    implementation 'com.google.firebase:firebase-auth:11.8.0'
    implementation 'com.google.firebase:firebase-messaging:11.8.0'
    implementation 'com.google.android.gms:play-services:11.8.0'

    implementation 'com.aurelhubert:ahbottomnavigation:2.1.0'
    implementation 'com.afollestad.material-dialogs:core:0.9.6.0'
    implementation 'com.afollestad.material-dialogs:commons:0.9.6.0'

    implementation 'com.amitshekhar.android:android-networking:1.0.1'
    implementation 'org.apache.directory.studio:org.apache.commons.io:2.4'

    implementation 'com.github.ome450901:SimpleRatingBar:1.4.1'

    implementation 'com.sothree.slidinguppanel:library:3.4.0'

    implementation 'com.github.esafirm.android-image-picker:imagepicker:1.12.0'
    //Do not update due to dex error
    implementation 'com.theartofdev.edmodo:android-image-cropper:2.5.1'

    implementation 'com.github.bumptech.glide:glide:4.6.1'
    kapt 'com.github.bumptech.glide:compiler:4.6.1'//https://github.com/bumptech/glide/issues/1939

    implementation 'com.github.PhilJay:MPAndroidChart:v3.0.3'

    implementation 'de.hdodenhof:circleimageview:2.2.0'

    testImplementation 'junit:junit:4.12'
    androidTestImplementation 'com.android.support.test:runner:1.0.1'
    androidTestImplementation 'com.android.support.test.espresso:espresso-core:3.0.1'

    implementation 'com.firebaseui:firebase-ui-auth:3.2.1'
    implementation 'com.android.support:support-v4:27.1.1'
}


apply plugin: 'com.google.gms.google-services'

Any help is kindly appreciated.

are you sure it is in drawable folder or in some drawable-xyz folder. Please share screenshot of directory structure — Shubham AgaRwal, Apr 22 '18 at 12:36
It is definitly in the main drawable folder located under src/main/res/drawable/splash_screen.xml. Changing the location in any kind did unfortunately not help — Lucas Romier, Apr 22 '18 at 13:05

Mohsen · Answer 1 · 2020-05-08T11:46:15.447

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In my case it was an xml selector. In the first line I had two of these (thanks to copy paste among my files):

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

and Android Studio didn't give any warning or something. Removing it fixed the problem but it needed a full clean build afterwards.

edited May 08 '20 at 11:46

answered Dec 30 '18 at 12:05

Mohsen

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Note this may not be in the file that apparently gives the error! Check any XML files you recently added or modified in the project. – Matt Dec 15 '19 at 15:20
so officially debug output are not reliable and not self explanatory – Muhammad Asyraf Jan 11 '22 at 13:20
Project was unable to build. I did this. Compiled successfully. Removed the line again, rebuilt the project, now it works. Whatever... – Torge Rosendahl Jul 08 '22 at 16:06
I used a SVG validator and fixed my issues. – profimedica May 22 '23 at 07:29
I had this error because it was *missing* the ` – ehartwell Jun 08 '23 at 19:25

score 39 · Accepted Answer · edited Jan 24 '20 at 04:47

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I fixed the error, which was probably coming from a mal-formatted copied XML file (probably some line-ending confusion)

Rewriting those fixed the error, although Android Studio displayed another file as the source of the problem, which in fact had nothing to do with the error itself.

edited Jan 24 '20 at 04:47

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answered Apr 22 '18 at 14:10

Lucas Romier

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I had a similar error which was caused due to a malformed xml. Unfortunately Android studio did not display a warning. – NewestStackOverflowUser May 06 '18 at 16:24
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I have a lot of xml files... how can I find the mal-formed one? – Zeynab Rostami Feb 26 '20 at 05:57
Thank you. I have faced the same problem above. – Naimul Kabir Aug 26 '21 at 14:31

Ayoub Anbara · Answer 3 · 2021-02-12T08:30:33.987

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In my case I deleted namespace declaration duplicate like xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
and I used Analyse -> inspect code tool to show the error in the log, then I resolved the error in other files xml in drawable resource.

edited Feb 12 '21 at 08:30

answered Sep 22 '19 at 20:51

Ayoub Anbara

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score 8 · Answer 4 · edited Mar 21 '21 at 14:07

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I was facing the same issue and finally solve this by

Analyze>Inspect Code

My Application was missing ending tags in one of the XML File Just Try Analyze > Inspect Code it will redirect you to the exact error.

edited Mar 21 '21 at 14:07

Taslim Oseni

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answered Mar 21 '21 at 12:12

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score 4 · Answer 5 · answered Nov 17 '20 at 10:07

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in my case i like this : <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

so i just remove one of them

answered Nov 17 '20 at 10:07

user9055011

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Pratik Butani · Answer 6 · 2020-01-24T04:47:38.433

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Check your each and every XML and maybe you will find the following situation.

While coping code or files from other projects, maybe you forgot to add some resources like drawable, strings.
Check each drawable files, may Android Studio will highlight when you open that file.

Sometimes this type of error we have to find because of Android Studio stuck with errors.

edited Jan 24 '20 at 04:47

answered Jan 11 '19 at 10:53

Pratik Butani

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score 3 · Answer 7 · edited Nov 01 '19 at 12:12

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I had the same problem and I solved it when I added my icons in the drawable file to 24dp.

Copy any icon you want and paste it in the drawable file, and it will create (by default) 24dp icons.

edited Nov 01 '19 at 12:12

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answered Oct 04 '19 at 12:39

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score 3 · Answer 8 · answered Sep 03 '21 at 08:14

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In my case it was a duplicated:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

in a drawable ressource file

answered Sep 03 '21 at 08:14

MakiX

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100% right, you saved my day thanks – Ashwin H Dec 07 '21 at 10:37

score 2 · Answer 9 · answered May 01 '21 at 19:30

If you got down here and yet didn't got the answer so you might need to use mipmap. It's used to find the assets related to the target device dpi (like: mdpi, hdpi, xhdpi, ...).

So all you need to do is to address the asset from the mipmap instead of drawable.

android:resource="@mipmap/splash_screen"

Open your AndroidManifest.xml and where ever you used drawable change it to mipmap. here is some example:

score 1 · Answer 10 · answered Aug 03 '18 at 11:17

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In my case it was malformed splash_screen.xml which was part of "reverted commit" which actually deleted this file, but somehow it was still may be it was in active changelist.

Fixed that file and solved issue.

answered Aug 03 '18 at 11:17

AskQ

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score 1 · Answer 11 · edited Jan 24 '20 at 04:48

In my case, it was a drawable resource file that required a higher API version as it was my minSdkVersion set in build.gradle. The main problem was that the file did not show any error until you opened it, so it was hard to find it at all. I have spent at least 4 hours trying other things, since as an error when building the project it showed other drawable resource files that did not have any problems at all. After removing the drawable that required the higher API the app built normally.

score 1 · Answer 12 · answered Sep 21 '20 at 03:49

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In my case, the problem is code conflict, other person changed the same file with me. The resource code is changed. When I fix the file, the problem is gone.

answered Sep 21 '20 at 03:49

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score 1 · Answer 13 · answered Dec 19 '20 at 09:36

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In my case: There was a file that I did not create inside a drawable file, and this file was empty and I just deleted it and the program started

answered Dec 19 '20 at 09:36

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score 1 · Answer 14 · answered Jun 02 '22 at 13:51

If you have put together your own icon ready for store release, be sure not to include the extension of the icon in your xml file. it will always fail. in my case it was this..

 <bitmap android:gravity="center" android:src="@drawable/myAppSplashLogo.png"/>

and the right way to do it is to remove the .png extension.

 <bitmap android:gravity="center" android:src="@drawable/myAppSplashLogo"/>

score 1 · Answer 15 · answered Oct 31 '22 at 00:34

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In my case, I had made drawable files that were all debug classification and had to go back and make a release classification equivalent. After doing this it worked on the first try.

answered Oct 31 '22 at 00:34

R3S

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Excellent answer that is simple and works. Just copy debug folder content into release folder. – Hmerman6006 Jan 01 '23 at 15:09

Faysal SANDA · Answer 16 · 2023-01-18T11:00:19.677

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1 - Go to app folder and delete build folder
2 - Click on File -> Invalide Caches - Invalide and Restart

edited Jan 18 '23 at 11:00

answered Jan 18 '23 at 10:58

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score 0 · Answer 17 · answered Oct 18 '19 at 11:05

I faced the same problem while building a release version of my app the problem was that i had some important res files of my project inside the debug directory instead of having them inside the release dir so i fixed the problem by moving the files that were in debug inside release you can check it by viewing your project tree under project instead of android

score 0 · Answer 18 · answered Apr 26 '20 at 02:51

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while copy and pasting code I also pasted below line

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

Since,my xml file already contain above line and on adding this line it appear twice .

so I remove one of these line and it resolve my error

answered Apr 26 '20 at 02:51

Welcome_back

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score 0 · Answer 19 · answered May 05 '20 at 17:31

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In my case , I used a wrong reference to the android resource file i.e android:color/splash_bg instead of @color/splash_bg

where splash_bg represents my custom color resource declared in res/values/colors.xml file.

answered May 05 '20 at 17:31

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score 0 · Answer 20 · answered Aug 29 '20 at 04:08

In my case I had to remove android:src="@drawable/background" and android:src="@drawable/logo" lines from splash_screen.xml although the error was originally pointing at AndroidManifest.xml.

And like the first post is saying, make sure the <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> is correct in all xml files.

score 0 · Answer 21 · answered Oct 06 '20 at 23:16

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In my case I had deleted the folder "drawable"

answered Oct 06 '20 at 23:16

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score 0 · Answer 22 · answered Apr 20 '21 at 15:14

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I reformated code (since I didn't find error) in one of xml (vector) files that wasn't mentioned in error (I think) as mentioned also by @Lucas Romier, but file name was underlined red and it suggested then clean build and it worked then. :)

answered Apr 20 '21 at 15:14

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score 0 · Answer 23 · answered Nov 05 '21 at 19:53

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for me the problem was that i misspelled the names of drawable-mdpi, drawable-hdpi, etc. (I wrote them as dawable-mdpi, etc.)

answered Nov 05 '21 at 19:53

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score 0 · Answer 24 · answered Mar 10 '22 at 10:00

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In my case File > Invalidate Caches, Build > Rebuild Project, removing .gradle folder didn't help. So I removed a folder res\mipmap-anydpi-v26 that contained a conflicting file.

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score 0 · Answer 25 · answered May 02 '22 at 18:47

I had the same issue. Solved it by manually adding

dependencies {
    ...
    implementation project(':react-native-splash-screen')
}

even after linking with react-native. Also added

protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    SplashScreen.show(this);  // Added this
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
}

score 0 · Answer 26 · answered Jan 06 '23 at 11:33

I was facing the same issue , I noticed while debugging the code it worked perfectly but during reliease then the bug would persist .

I f you are facing the same issue don't worry , It means the image has been saved on debug mode and to fix the issue go to FILE - NEW - IMAGE ASSET (don't change anything just click next on top where you see) res directory change it from DEBUG to MAIN . your image asset can now be used on both release and debug mode.

score 0 · Answer 27 · answered Jan 17 '23 at 18:44

Most of the time, when you copy and past any kind of drawable to your project directly to Android Studio, it stored in Debug Drawable, just move by File Explorer from Debug Resources to Main Resources.

From \app\src\debug\res\drawable

To \app\src\main\res\drawable

score 0 · Answer 28 · answered Feb 10 '23 at 10:21

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in my case under drawable folder i changed the image which is declared same in androidmanifest file

answered Feb 10 '23 at 10:21

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Shrivatsa Kulkarni · Answer 29 · 2023-04-24T15:27:40.587

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This error is caused when your assets are not bundled properly. Either you can bundle all your assets correctly or store those assets in cloud and get the link of each asset from cloud.

If you are trying second method, try uploading assets into a personal CSP like google drive/cloudfront and get the links.

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answered Apr 24 '23 at 15:26

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score 0 · Answer 30 · answered May 18 '23 at 12:50

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removing .png from android:icon="@drawable/ic_bg.png"> solved my issue

answered May 18 '23 at 12:50

Gos Cb

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score -1 · Answer 31 · answered Oct 08 '21 at 11:57

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copy "res" folder from another project (where is res folder - android/app/src/main) paste your own project. re run.

answered Oct 08 '21 at 11:57

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score -1 · Answer 32 · answered Oct 14 '21 at 08:53

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copy drawable folder all file and paste drawable_v24 folder your own project. re run. I hope this is work.

answered Oct 14 '21 at 08:53

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