I recently updated the Android Studio to it's latest version, and now I am experiencing a headache with an exception in Gradle build.
Every time I run the project, two or three times before it succeed, I get the following error:
Gradle: Execution failed for task ': ProjectName:
mergeDebugResources'.
Java.lang.NullPointerException (no error message)
After trying again a couple times, the error does not happen again until the next run.
Does anybody have any idea of why this is happening? The project worked just fine 'til the update, never got any error before...
Thanks!
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You may have a corrupted .9.png in your drawables directory
This would also happen if there is/are any additional folder/files in resource folder which are not supported by Android.
My problem solve this one
compile fileTree(dir: 'libs', include: ['*.jar'])
to
provided fileTree(dir: 'libs', include: ['*.jar'])
In my case I just removed the space from project folder name From: MyApp latest
To: MyApp_latest
and it worked.
inside your project directory, run:
./gradlew clean build
or from Android Studio select:
Build > Clean Project
Updated: As @VinceFior pointed out in a comment below
This error could also happen if the generated build file path exceeds the windows max path length of 255 characters. Make sure your project path is not too long, use short names as well.
Had to change build tools version from some old one in build.gradle
for project module:
android {
...
buildToolsVersion "24.0.2"
...
}
I just upgraded to the latest gradle build tool version and it works.
classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:3.0.1
In my case, when I changed package name this issue appeared, I just followed below steps to fix my problem:
Removed previously installed apk (uninstall)
Applied project clean
Run the app
In my case none of above works, I have just renamed the project name, everything works well.
Example:
My project name Before - sticky-headers-recyclerview-master
My project name After - SHRV
Hope this will help you.
It happens to me only when modifying the XML files on the project. If you rebuild the entire project before running (Build > Rebuild Project) it doesn't show up anymore.
There is a new Gradle task called "cleanBuildCache" just run this task clean the cache then re-build the project.
It could be a faulty name of a drawable file. I had an image I was using that was named Untitled
. Changing the name solved my problem.
I had the same problem and managed to solve, it simply downgrade your gradle version like this:
dependencies {
classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:YOUR_GRADLE_VERSION'
}
to
dependencies {
classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:OLDER_GRADLE_VERSION_THAT_YOUR'
}
for example:
YOUR_GRADLE_VERSION = 3.0.0
OLDER_GRADLE_VERSION_THAT_YOUR = 2.3.2
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