\ build \ intermediates \ res \ resources-anzhi-debug-stripped.ap_ 'for property' resourceFile 'does not exist

Question

I updated Android Studio to version 2.0. Build fails and takes longer than Android Studio version 1.5 to build. Every time I launch my application, I clear and reload the project, but it is useless. Error message:

\ build \ intermediates \ res \ resources-anzhi-debug-stripped.ap_ 'specified for property' resourceFile 'does not exist.

Answer 1

You have the same problem! Thus, instant start is incompatible with shrinkResources

1) if you are using Android Studio 2.2

shrinkResources false

buildTypes { release { signingConfig signingConfigs.release minifyEnabled false shrinkResources false zipAlignEnabled true debuggable false proguardFiles getDefaultProguardFile('proguard-android.txt'), 'proguard-rules.pro' } } 

2) if you are using Android Studio 2.0

• open setting

• 

• Now run the project

Answer 2

If you encounter this problem when creating a release build, keep in mind that the Android plugin for Gradle 2.2.0 (and higher) seems to have an error with shrinkResources .

Reduce gradle to 2.1.3 for workaround:

 classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:2.1.3' 

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EDIT:

I reported this issue wojtek.kalicinski (Destination for Android Developer on Google).

As it turned out, shrinkResources only works if there is minifyEnabled set to true . 2.1.3 version of Android Plugin simply ignored the problem (and without shrinkResources ). 2.2.0+ lets you know that something is wrong with the error (which in itself is not very informative). In the future, Google may submit a better error message for such scenarios.

Here is twitter :

Answer 3

You are probably reducing resources while avoiding minimization:

 minifyEnabled false shrinkResources true 

If you want to compress resources, you need to enable mining:

 minifyEnabled true shrinkResources true 

Older versions of Build Tools ignored this problem, but started sending out compilation problems in Build Tools 2.2.3

More information here: https://developer.android.com/studio/build/shrink-code.html#shrink-resources

Answer 4

Set shrinkResources false. It worked for me

 buildTypes { release { minifyEnabled false shrinkResources false proguardFiles getDefaultProguardFile('proguard-android.txt'), 'proguard-rules.pro' debuggable false jniDebuggable false zipAlignEnabled true 

Answer 5

Found an answer, just disable instarun and it should work. It worked for me.

Answer 6

• We could use both Instant Run and shrinkResources at the same time;
• Note: we CANNOT use Jack and shrinkResources at the same time (same for ProGuard, minifyEnabled)

Answer 7

As suggested by @ Bartek-lipinski's post, I confirmed in my project that overriding the Gradle plugin in v2.1.3 would solve this problem of getting "InvalidUserDataException: File specified for property does not exist."

I filed an error using the Android website bugtracker tools, please increase the visibility of the problem.

Answer 8

In my project, because I added shrinkResources to gradle, delete Ok.