Android Studio 3.0 : canary 6 : android.content.res.Resources$NotFoundException inside Launching activity

Question

I update android-studio 3.0 from canary 5 to canary 6 and suddenly My app gives crash on KitKat(API 19) with below stacktrace.

The Main2Activity.java:10 line is the

Answer 1

Seems like the issue is related to Aapt 2.

Put

android.enableAapt2=false

In your gradle.properties file and it fixes the issue for me.

Answer 2

I have the same issue.

put

android.enableAapt2=false

AAPT2. We are continuing to stabilize AAPT2 which enables incremental resource processing. If your build fails due to resource processing issue, please send us a bug report. To temporarily disable AAPT, set android.enableAapt2=false in your gradle.properties file. Roboelectric is currently not compatible with AAPT2

follow the below link

https://androidstudio.googleblog.com/2017/06/android-studio-30-canary-5-is-now.html

Answer 3

add this code in my project

android.enableAapt2=false

solved one of my issues: with Android Studio 3.0 : canary 6, Gen a signed APK by default which can't parsered by "AXmlResourceParser.java"(axmlprinter2-2.0.jar)

Answer 4

I had the same problem. To solve it, just update to Android Studio 3.0 Canary 7.

Fixes:
63623801 ResourceNotFoundException running Kotlin project on API 16 AVD after upgrading to Canary 6

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