Error Execution failed for task ':app:mergeReleaseResources' building APK

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After trying to build APK once and fixing an error, I got an error executing ./gradlew assembleRelease again: Execution failed for task ':app:mergeReleaseResources' building APK

score 73 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 04 '18 at 17:26

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The problem occured becaused when I tried to build once, it has created drawables dirs on android/app/src/main/res/. Then when I tried on second time, it has shown me this error Execution failed for task ':app:mergeReleaseResources' building APK

I just deleted the drawable-* dirs and it worked.

Hope it helps!

rm -rf android/app/src/main/res/drawable-*

answered Oct 04 '18 at 17:26

Lucas Mendes Mota Da Fonseca

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Won't this delete all your app icons and any assets you have in there? – Taylor A. Leach Jul 07 '20 at 21:31
@TaylorA.Leach No! It won't delete app icons. App icons are stored in the same folder with the folder name mipmap. – cmcodes Sep 11 '20 at 15:26
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Now it's giving `A failure occurred while executing com.android.build.gradle.internal.tasks.Workers$ActionFacade' Error because images inside drawable are missing – Zeeshan Ahmad Khalil Jul 31 '21 at 13:23
AAPT: error: resource mipmap/ic_launcher (aka com.myApp.myapp:mipmap/ic_launcher) not found. – Thulfiqar Nov 21 '22 at 06:11

score 28 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 04 '21 at 18:08

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As addition to accepted answer, if there is a "raw" folder in the same directory, also you must delete that.

answered Jan 04 '21 at 18:08

MMYurt

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This is a good point to take into account. I only solved erasing this folder too. – Luighi Viton-Zorrilla Jan 10 '21 at 05:31

score 13 · Answer 3 · answered Apr 25 '21 at 06:49

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I just deleted the drawable-* dirs as well raw dir from

android/app/src/main/res/ and it worked.

answered Apr 25 '21 at 06:49

Munna Kumar

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Muhammad Azeem · Answer 4 · 2020-12-30T13:04:46.893

Exactly problem occurred when I tried to build once, it has created drawable dirs. I was facing following issue:

Execution failed for task ':app:mergeReleaseResources'.

java.util.concurrent.ExecutionException: com.android.builder.internal.aapt.v2.Aapt2InternalException: AAPT2 aapt2-3.3.0-5013011-windows Daemon #0: Unexpected error during compile 'E:\project\ionic\uvparentlan0.4\platforms\android\app\src\main\res\drawable-land-xxxhdpi\screen.png', attempting to stop daemon. This should not happen under normal circumstances, please file an issue if it does.

Solution: I delete all drawable directories named "drawable-port-*****"

Now Build again " ionic cordova build --release android "

BUILD SUCCESSFUL in 1m 11s 42 actionable tasks: 40 executed, 2 up-to-date Built the following apk(s):

score 0 · Answer 5 · answered Dec 11 '20 at 10:58

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Sometimes it's a result of a duplicate file. Reading the error log, it seemed that I had a duplicate file name (two files with the same name). The issue resolved by removing one of the files (from a previous build if I remember it right).

answered Dec 11 '20 at 10:58

YosefBro

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score 0 · Answer 6 · answered Dec 11 '22 at 14:37

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I changed .png to .jpg in drawable and it worked for me.

answered Dec 11 '22 at 14:37

IBTESAAM AHMED

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score 0 · Answer 7 · edited Aug 02 '23 at 07:41

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If you are facing this error from

\android\app\src\main\res\mipmap-xxxhdpi\splash.png

change it to jpg extension

\android\app\src\main\res\mipmap-xxxhdpi\splash.jpg

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answered Jul 29 '23 at 10:35

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Error Execution failed for task ':app:mergeReleaseResources' building APK

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