ionic build android failure - Execution failed for task processDebugResources

Question

I am using Mac Yosemite. Getting the following failure on running a build for android platform :

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

* What went wrong:         


        

Answer 1

If you are developing with Windows, it may be because of the "path name". Windows doesn't allow the path name longer than 260 char. So making it shorter may solve it.

Answer 2

I've got a similar issue. To find a workaround, I've created a new blank project. The compilation and emulation was good. I figure out there were a problem in my www folder. After some multiples test, one of my picture got that name : 'Clément.png". Removing the accent to get 'Clement.png' just fixed my problem.... A lot of pain.

Answer 3

I don't know why, but my android platform didn't work. Solved the problem by doing :

ionic platform rm android
ionic platform add android

Answer 4

I've got this problem on Arch Linux on clean Cordova. To debug this I followed @CapeCorder answer and found that this was missing zlib library. Simply installed it

sudo pacman -S lib32-zlib

And works well ;)

Answer 5

from ionic forum

It was because of the "ionic resource" service error.

where run "ionic resource" command, I looked into and checked the /resources/android/splash folder, I clicked and open all of these png files, I found some pictures were broken(which appears as half of it).

So I replace these broken png files with the "normal" png file(at the same folder), then run "ionic build" command， the error is disappeared.

https://forum.ionicframework.com/t/ionic-android-build-problem/29131/7?u=bleuscyther

Answer 6

I use Vue.js and Webpack to generate production files and the output contains *.gz files, which was the problem if put into Cordova's www/.