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Ammar M Mashfj
Ammar M Mashfj

Reputation: 104

Strange error in colors.xml file in Android Studio

I've been searching for a solution for this but nobody actually can confirm ... when creating new android studio project

"colors.xml:9:18: Error: XML document structures must start and end within the same entity."

I open that colors.xml it contains some wierd stuff :

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<project version="4">
    <component name="AndroidLayouts">
        <shared>
            <config />
        </shared>
    </component>
    <component name="AndroidLogFilters">
        <option n

and YES that is the full file ... it's not my first project and i know that's not how the file should look , even if I replaced the content with the correct syntax , many error of the same type in other files as well , so my question is , why is this happening ? I tried clearing caches of android and deleted the cache of gradle entirely ...nothing seems to work , what could be the problem ? how this file even gets created in the first place ? is it a gradle problem ?

Upvotes: 4

Views: 13552

Answers (5)

Dharmik Thakkar
Dharmik Thakkar

Reputation: 2158

Follow these steps your problem will be solved:-

  1. Close the Android Studio.

  2. Go to: C:\users\your_user_name\.AndroidStudio3.4\system\caches

  3. Delete the caches folder.

  4. Go to: C:\Users\your_user_name\.gradle\caches

  5. Delete this caches folder also.

  6. Now you can start your Android Studio and start working.

Your Problem will be solved.

Upvotes: 2

eric
eric

Reputation: 140

I was just facing the same issue, an incomplete color.xml is generated which causes the build error, just create a new helloworld app project.

What I have done is deleting both the .AndroidStudio3.2 and .android folder in the window's user folder, and then the strange issue has gone...

Looks like a stange IDE bug...

Upvotes: 0

Matt Plumlee
Matt Plumlee

Reputation: 1

It may be which browser you got the install file from. (This answer also appears at colors.xml: Error: Unsupported type 'component' (Android studio))

I just had a student with the same problem (version 3.3 now), and it appears to have been fixed by having him install from a file downloaded with Chrome rather than with Edge. Did you originally install with an install file obtained using Edge?

Upvotes: 0

dvlpr
dvlpr

Reputation: 1

I'm literally facing the same issue, did you somehow managed to resolve it?

I though I've been getting this error after invalidating cache and restart Android Studio but it seems to be some kind of different bug from IDE itself.

Upvotes: 0

Lekr0
Lekr0

Reputation: 733

I don't know how you got that color xml but that's definitely not a color xml file.

A color.xml file looks like below image

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Copy below code to your color.xml file to solve your error.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<resources>
<color name="colorPrimary">#3F51B5</color>
<color name="colorPrimaryDark">#303F9F</color>
<color name="colorAccent">#FF4081</color>
<color name="your_color">#FFFFFF</color>
</resources>

Upvotes: 1

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