CODEWITHSUNDEEP
android-studioandroid-layoutandroid-xmlandroidxandroid-cardview
Craig Mlambo
Craig Mlambo

Reputation: 41

Greyed out resources - xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools" and xmlns:card_view="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"

Resources working on other XML layouts on certain layouts are grayed out, inaccessible

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This is causing some widgets not to work - Error Android resource linking failed on every card-view widget

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This is the Build output

Build failed :app:processDebugResources app/src/main/res/layout/bill_payment.xml Android resource linking failed Android resource linking failed Android resource linking failed Android resource linking failed Android resource linking failed Android resource linking failed Android resource linking failed Android resource linking failed Android resource linking failed Android resource linking failed Android resource linking failed Android resource linking failed Android resource linking failed Android resource linking failed Android resource linking failed Android resource linking failed Android resource linking failed Android resource linking failed Android resource linking failed Android resource linking failed Android resource linking failed

This is the Event Log

13:02 Executing tasks: [:app:assembleDebug] in project C:\Users\acer\Downloads.ankApp\BankApp

13:02 Gradle build failed in 24 s 131 ms

14:30 Executing tasks: [:app:assembleDebug] in project C:\Users\acer\Downloads.ankApp\BankApp

14:32 Gradle build failed in 2 m 13 s 786 ms

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1098

Answers (1)

shagberg
shagberg

Reputation: 2512

The fact that they are greyed out simply means that those items are not being used in your layout. You can remove them.

As far as the 'resource linking failed' error, that could be due to a number of reasons in your XML. It could be caused by having the the code below twice in an XML in the drawable folder:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

Take a close look at the error logging to try to determine which specific XML file is causing the error.

Also, the error could be caused by upgrading the support libraries to 28 and above without having your compileSdkVersion set to 28 or higher.

Upvotes: 1

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