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Tom Finet
Tom Finet

Reputation: 2136

Android duplicate resources error

My project was compiling fine until I deleted some png drawables and replaced them with vector drawables by navigating to New > Vector Asset. I am now getting a duplicate resources error.

Here is my res folder:

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Here is the error message in the Gradle console:

Execution failed for task ':app:mergeDebugResources'.
> [drawable/ic_menu_manage] /Users/tomfinet/AndroidStudioProjects/Birthpay/app/src/main/res/drawable/ic_menu_manage.xml [drawable/ic_menu_manage] /Users/tomfinet/AndroidStudioProjects/Birthpay/app/src/main/res/values/drawables.xml: Error: Duplicate resources
  [drawable/ic_menu_share] /Users/tomfinet/AndroidStudioProjects/Birthpay/app/src/main/res/drawable/ic_menu_share.xml   [drawable/ic_menu_share] /Users/tomfinet/AndroidStudioProjects/Birthpay/app/src/main/res/values/drawables.xml: Error: Duplicate resources
  [drawable/ic_menu_slideshow] /Users/tomfinet/AndroidStudioProjects/Birthpay/app/src/main/res/drawable/ic_menu_slideshow.xml   [drawable/ic_menu_slideshow] /Users/tomfinet/AndroidStudioProjects/Birthpay/app/src/main/res/values/drawables.xml: Error: Duplicate resources
  [drawable/ic_menu_send] /Users/tomfinet/AndroidStudioProjects/Birthpay/app/src/main/res/drawable/ic_menu_send.xml [drawable/ic_menu_send] /Users/tomfinet/AndroidStudioProjects/Birthpay/app/src/main/res/values/drawables.xml: Error: Duplicate resources
  [drawable/ic_menu_gallery] /Users/tomfinet/AndroidStudioProjects/Birthpay/app/src/main/res/drawable/ic_menu_gallery.xml   [drawable/ic_menu_gallery] /Users/tomfinet/AndroidStudioProjects/Birthpay/app/src/main/res/values/drawables.xml: Error: Duplicate resources
  [drawable/ic_menu_camera] /Users/tomfinet/AndroidStudioProjects/Birthpay/app/src/main/res/drawable/ic_menu_camera.xml [drawable/ic_menu_camera] /Users/tomfinet/AndroidStudioProjects/Birthpay/app/src/main/res/values/drawables.xml: Error: Duplicate resources

How do I fix this and why is it happening?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 7013

Answers (2)

Vivek Hande
Vivek Hande

Reputation: 999

when we add some new thing in out project, in that case some times resources might get duplicate that time it will give the error while run the app, in my case also get same issue I had face, while I had added the kotlin activity in java project, in it gives me error

Execution failed for task ':app:mergeDebugResources'. ...\themes.xml: Error: Duplicate resources

so in this case please check the local history and remove the duplicate resources from res folder, so simply revert that changes

To revert changes click on res folder and go to local history and check the duplicate file name and revert that changes which was not present in running code

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in my case there was \themes.xml file is added newly so I reverted that changes and run code, it run successfully

Upvotes: 1

Tom Finet
Tom Finet

Reputation: 2136

The error suggests that the drawable.xml file is responsible for the error. So I opened it and commented out the xml code and the app ran fine. I have no idea why this fixes it but this solved the problem.

Upvotes: 3

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