Android resource compilation failed after update to 3.2.1

Question

I am developing an app on Android Studio, everything was going fine but when I updated android studio to latest 3.2.1. Whenever I rebuild it, it started throwing error like:

'Cannot resolve symbol r'

Android resource compilation failed

Output:  C:\Users\User\AndroidStudioProjects\MyApplication\app\build\intermediates\incremental\mergeDebugResources\merged.dir\values\values.xml:2387: error: <item> inner element must either be a resource reference or empty.

Command: C:\Users\User\.gradle\caches\transforms-1\files-1.1\aapt2-3.2.1-4818971-windows.jar\95f7c8f43460b8291b9636dd6edf99d6\aapt2-3.2.1-4818971-windows\aapt2.exe compile --legacy \
        -o \
        C:\Users\User\AndroidStudioProjects\MyApplication\app\build\intermediates\res\merged\debug \
        C:\Users\User\AndroidStudioProjects\MyApplication\app\build\intermediates\incremental\mergeDebugResources\merged.dir\values\values.xml
Daemon:  AAPT2 aapt2-3.2.1-4818971-windows Daemon #0

values.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<resources xmlns:ns1="urn:oasis:names:tc:xliff:document:1.2" xmlns:ns2="http://schemas.android.com/tools">

Error comes up in this line of values.xml:

<item name="textviewprofile" type="id">Logout</item>

I tried every was possible to way fix error in values.xml, but no solution, whenever I make changes to the values.xml file, the default one comes up again after rebuild. Any help would be appreciated

Thank you very much for your time and assistance in this matter.

try [this](https://stackoverflow.com/a/52913178/1571605) - might help — Itamar Kerbel, Oct 25 '18 at 11:26
Did you check this. https://stackoverflow.com/q/52076491/6891563 — Khemraj Sharma, Oct 25 '18 at 11:27
Maybe this will help: https://stackoverflow.com/a/52944600/4255978 — HedeH, Oct 25 '18 at 11:34

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 25 '18 at 11:55

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For id type item no value is required. Just remove the value. Use this

<item name="textviewprofile" type="id"/>

instead of

<item name="textviewprofile" type="id">Logout</item>

answered Oct 25 '18 at 11:55

Faysal Ahmed

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I know it, but the changes does not reflect after rebuild. It shows the default setting everytime – Rahmat Ullah Oct 25 '18 at 12:03
After change remove build folder and clean project and run again. – Faysal Ahmed Oct 25 '18 at 12:07

Android resource compilation failed after update to 3.2.1

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