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Anil Ugale
Anil Ugale

Reputation: 1098

STRING_TOO_LARGE String in Kotlin

When I added plugins to support the Kotlin in my project, Then after it read large string from my project's string.xml file. It gives me following error below.

error: string too large to encode using UTF-8 written instead as 'STRING_TOO_LARGE'.

Upvotes: 21

Views: 26662

Answers (5)

Veener
Veener

Reputation: 5191

This is not really a Kotlin question, it's related to the build tools. This didn't happen on Build Tools 27 (Gradle 3.1) but happened for me after upgrading to Build Tools 28 (Gradle 3.2).

The solution is posted here STRING_TOO_LARGE Java compiler error.

You can use AAPT (from the android sdk/build-tools) to examine the APK and look for the offending string:

// Linux/Mac
./aapt dump --values resources MyAppName-regular-debug.apk | grep -B 1 'STRING_TOO_LARGE'

// Windows
aapt dump --values resources MyAppName-regular-debug.apk | grep -B 1 'STRING_TOO_LARGE'

Upvotes: 5

Sachin Soma
Sachin Soma

Reputation: 3802

Go to File > Invalidate Caches/Restart . This solved my problem.

Upvotes: 2

JJ Du Plessis
JJ Du Plessis

Reputation: 1139

It seems that a common cause for this is having a Stripe in your app/build.gradle, seems it has a vector file being read as a string longer than 32kB.

To solve this, change your stripe version to something after 7.0.0, which is where they fixed it. Current version of Stripe is 8.1.0.

Upvotes: 5

user10433417
user10433417

Reputation: 101

When working with vector resources, you simply need to find and divide a string that is longer than 32kb, in my case, it was a complex path which I simplified a little to match the criterion of 32kb

Upvotes: 10

Lancelittle
Lancelittle

Reputation: 133

This is an issue with the gradle plugin.

If you upgrade the plugin to 3.3.0-alpha06 or later and upgrade gradle to 4.9 it should work. It's not ideal since it is alpha, but it fixed the issue for me.

Add <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> to the top of any resource .xml file that is missing it.

Upvotes: 9

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