Strange error in colors.xml file in Android Studio

Question

I've been searching for a solution for this but nobody actually can confirm ... when creating new android studio project

"colors.xml:9:18: Error: XML document structures must start and end within the same entity."

I open that colors.xml it contains some wierd stuff :

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<project version="4">
    <component name="AndroidLayouts">
        <shared>
            <config />
        </shared>
    </component>
    <component name="AndroidLogFilters">
        <option n

and YES that is the full file ... it's not my first project and i know that's not how the file should look , even if I replaced the content with the correct syntax , many error of the same type in other files as well , so my question is , why is this happening ? I tried clearing caches of android and deleted the cache of gradle entirely ...nothing seems to work , what could be the problem ? how this file even gets created in the first place ? is it a gradle problem ?

If that's in your resource folder, then just delete it. I could be wrong but it looks like a copy & paste mistake. — Aaron, Nov 21 '18 at 00:17
i said it's a new project , i didn't change anything ... @Aaron — Ammar M Mashfj, Nov 21 '18 at 00:21
The xml is malformed and incomplete, it's likely causing the issue — Wayne Phipps, Nov 21 '18 at 00:28
So? It certainly doesn't look right, the xml is incomplete and no colors defined in it. You could either try deleting it, or find the history and revert it. — Aaron, Nov 21 '18 at 00:31
I know , but it was created that way , and that is the question , why it was created that way ... @WaynePhipps — Ammar M Mashfj, Nov 21 '18 at 00:36
what history ? i said it's a new project , the file was created that way ... @Aaron — Ammar M Mashfj, Nov 21 '18 at 00:37
I would try creating a new/empty project to see if the issue persists — Wayne Phipps, Nov 21 '18 at 00:41
as said in the question , the issue persists in any new project .. even after clearing the cache of android and gradle ...@WaynePhipps — Ammar M Mashfj, Nov 21 '18 at 00:45
@AmmarMMashfj have you tried re-installing both Android Studio and Gradle? — MyStackRunnethOver, Nov 21 '18 at 01:26
if the issue persists in another project , then check is there any updates available for android studio ? — Chamila Lakmal, Nov 21 '18 at 04:15
It's a bug in Android Studio, if you search recent questions with the same error message... — OneCricketeer, Nov 21 '18 at 05:11
Anyway i did submit this to Google ... the only questions i found was 24 hours old ... And no one seem to know what is going on in this matter ...@cricket_007 — Ammar M Mashfj, Nov 21 '18 at 05:14
I'm not following the bug tracker for Studio, but it's been happening for a while https://stackoverflow.com/search?q=colors.xml+document+structures+must+start+and+end+within+the+same+entity&tab=newest — OneCricketeer, Nov 21 '18 at 05:15
Possible duplicate of [Android Studio shows wrong file contents](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/53249677/android-studio-shows-wrong-file-contents) — Zoe, Aug 14 '19 at 12:08

Dharmik Thakkar · Answer 1 · 2019-11-15T06:23:50.927

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Follow these steps your problem will be solved:-

Close the Android Studio.
Go to: C:\users\your_user_name\.AndroidStudio3.4\system\caches
Delete the caches folder.
Go to: C:\Users\your_user_name\.gradle\caches
Delete this caches folder also.
Now you can start your Android Studio and start working.

Your Problem will be solved.

edited Nov 15 '19 at 06:23

answered Aug 14 '19 at 11:58

Dharmik Thakkar

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score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Nov 21 '18 at 04:17

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I don't know how you got that color xml but that's definitely not a color xml file.

A color.xml file looks like below image

Copy below code to your color.xml file to solve your error.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<resources>
<color name="colorPrimary">#3F51B5</color>
<color name="colorPrimaryDark">#303F9F</color>
<color name="colorAccent">#FF4081</color>
<color name="your_color">#FFFFFF</color>
</resources>

answered Nov 21 '18 at 04:17

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My question is about how the file got created that way ...not for how to fix this file in particular ... As i said it's not the only file ... – Ammar M Mashfj Nov 21 '18 at 05:11
@AmmarMMashfj it was bug in android studio that's why it's showing file that way. – Atif AbbAsi Oct 17 '19 at 06:29
@AtifAbbAsi Do you have any official link about this bug ? – Ammar M Mashfj Oct 23 '19 at 04:04
I'v faced that same issue last year. My java code was in xml form. – Atif AbbAsi Oct 23 '19 at 05:18

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Dec 10 '18 at 22:29

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I'm literally facing the same issue, did you somehow managed to resolve it?

I though I've been getting this error after invalidating cache and restart Android Studio but it seems to be some kind of different bug from IDE itself.

answered Dec 10 '18 at 22:29

dvlpr

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nope , no Answer yet , anyhow I've submitted the bug to google issuetracker.google.com/issues/119838399 – Ammar M Mashfj Dec 14 '18 at 14:39
droid version 3.2 is too messed up to resolve unexpected bugs at uncertain times, upgraded to Studio version 3.4 Canary 6 till they make previous versions stable or might stick up to it. – dvlpr Dec 15 '18 at 22:08

score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Jan 29 '19 at 21:44

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It may be which browser you got the install file from. (This answer also appears at colors.xml: Error: Unsupported type 'component' (Android studio))

I just had a student with the same problem (version 3.3 now), and it appears to have been fixed by having him install from a file downloaded with Chrome rather than with Edge. Did you originally install with an install file obtained using Edge?

answered Jan 29 '19 at 21:44

Matt Plumlee

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Downloaded ? I made the project using Android studio ! – Ammar M Mashfj Jan 31 '19 at 19:17
I mean when you downloaded Android Studio. Something appears to go wrong in the installation process that mucks up new projects created by Android Studio afterward. – Matt Plumlee Feb 01 '19 at 20:57

score 0 · Answer 5 · answered Jan 31 '19 at 08:10

I was just facing the same issue, an incomplete color.xml is generated which causes the build error, just create a new helloworld app project.

What I have done is deleting both the .AndroidStudio3.2 and .android folder in the window's user folder, and then the strange issue has gone...

Looks like a stange IDE bug...

Strange error in colors.xml file in Android Studio

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