Android failed to convert drawable picture into a drawable

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In my drawable folder I have a few images and they all reference perfect  but when I try and add any more images with the exact same size in the same folder  and try to reference it  is flags up an error  Failed to convert  drawable picture into a drawable   I have tried the same image with a different name and it just keeps giving me that error  I have also tried it in a different XML layout and the same thing  Also the name of the picture have been  jack    abc    question mark  as you can see there are strictly in the rules of the what characters you can use  and still the error message keeps coming up  Any advice would be great on how to fix the problem  thanks      Failed to convert  drawable picture into a drawable

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I think I found a way to have it work without restarting Eclipse, or without closing project (it worked for me):

rename image file name under res/ in Eclipse -> choose file and press F2 (for me it res/drawable-mdpi/bush-landscape.jpg -> changed to bush.jpg)
Build Project (it will still show error)
change image where you used it (I changed in Graphical Layout. For me the place was LinearLayout/Background/bush-landscape -> changed "bush-landscape" to "bush")
Build Project

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My Image name was 21 jpg  I renamed it as abc jpg and it worked  So Make sure your image name not starting with a number  However all above answers are also accepted

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This is because your Image name contains  -  symbol   the only allowed characters are   a-zA-Z0-9     Thanks

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I have the same problem on Android Studio  No need to restart the IDE  just close and reopen the project and that will resolve the problem   Make sure the src are correclty input

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In Android Studio your resource images  file name cannot start with NUMERIC and It cannot contain any BIG character  To solve your problem  do as Aliyah said  Just restart your IDE  This solved my problem too

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If you have the naming conventions right  then just go to File -  Invalidate Caches   Restart    And press Invalidate Caches   Restart    This helped in my case

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It can be even more trivial than what the other posters suggested  if you have multiple projects make sure you did not create the xml layout file in the wrong project   After creation  the file will open automatically so this might go unnoticed and you assume it is in the correct project  Obviously any references to drawables or other resources will be invalid   And yes  I am that stupid  I ll close any unused projects from now on

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In my case I had an image in different folders  with same name  for supporting different dpi and device sizes  All images had same name except one of them  It was mistyped and once I renamed it like other names  it resolved my issue

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For Android Studio I had this same problem  It was caused by running from linux  meaning the files did not automatically receive an extension  By manually adding  png to the end of the filenames it could recognize the filetype and load accordingly   Android studio might throw a hissy fit if you try to refactor rename inside the project  because android will try to regenerate R immediately  I do not know exactly what causes the error as it points to some seemingly random line of code  which in my case was a comment   Solution to that  Delete from drawable  rename outside of the project and throw them in again

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If re-starting Eclipse does not correct the problem  make sure that the image name begins with an alpha character  non-numeric

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Simplify the name of your file  seems to be that any special characters in the file name makes it hiccup  for example chaange  my-main-header png  to  header1 png  not sure why  but it works

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Restart Eclipse  unfortunately  and the problem will go away

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Also check if the resource-name contains any illegal characters  for me it was a  -  in my-image

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file name must contain only abc   xyz 012   789       in Resources folder   for ex     my-image png is False  MyImage png  is False  my image png  is False           my-xml xml is False  MyXml xml  is False  my xml xml  is False

[android] Android: failed to convert @drawable/picture into a drawable

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