Android resource compilation failed after the update

Question

After the updating the android studio... my project is crashed with the error below

    Android resource compilation failed
Output:  C:\Users\aliya\Desktop\EventsToday\app\build\intermediates\incremental\mergeDebugResources\merged.dir\values\values.xml:1668: error: <item> inner element must either be a resource reference or empty.
C:\Users\aliya\Desktop\EventsToday\app\build\intermediates\incremental\mergeDebugResources\merged.dir\values\values.xml:1669: error: <item> inner element must either be a resource reference or empty.
C:\Users\aliya\Desktop\EventsToday\app\build\intermediates\incremental\mergeDebugResources\merged.dir\values\values.xml:1670: error: <item> inner element must either be a resource reference or empty.
C:\Users\aliya\Desktop\EventsToday\app\build\intermediates\incremental\mergeDebugResources\merged.dir\values\values.xml:1671: error: <item> inner element must either be a resource reference or empty.
C:\Users\aliya\Desktop\EventsToday\app\build\intermediates\incremental\mergeDebugResources\merged.dir\values\values.xml:1672: error: <item> inner element must either be a resource reference or empty.
C:\Users\aliya\Desktop\EventsToday\app\build\intermediates\incremental\mergeDebugResources\merged.dir\values\values.xml:1673: error: <item> inner element must either be a resource reference or empty.
C:\Users\aliya\Desktop\EventsToday\app\build\intermediates\incremental\mergeDebugResources\merged.dir\values\values.xml:1674: error: <item> inner element must either be a resource reference or empty.
C:\Users\aliya\Desktop\EventsToday\app\build\intermediates\incremental\mergeDebugResources\merged.dir\values\values.xml:1700: error: <item> inner element must either be a resource reference or empty.

Command: C:\Users\aliya\.gradle\caches\transforms-1\files-1.1\aapt2-3.2.0-4818971-windows.jar\c7465495da03cdfc80a78f27c03646df\aapt2-3.2.0-4818971-windows\aapt2.exe compile --legacy \
        -o \
        C:\Users\aliya\Desktop\EventsToday\app\build\intermediates\res\merged\debug \
        C:\Users\aliya\Desktop\EventsToday\app\build\intermediates\incremental\mergeDebugResources\merged.dir\values\values.xml
Daemon:  AAPT2 aapt2-3.2.0-4818971-windows Daemon #0

My Project level gradle is

    // Top-level build file where you can add configuration options common to all sub-projects/modules.

buildscript {
    ext.kotlin_version = '1.2.71'
    repositories {
        mavenCentral()
      //  maven {
        //    url 'https://maven.google.com'
       // }
       // maven { url 'https://maven.fabric.io/public' }
        google()
        jcenter()
        maven {
            url "https://maven.google.com"
        }
    }
    dependencies {
        classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:3.2.0'
        classpath 'com.google.gms:google-services:4.0.2'
        classpath "org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-gradle-plugin:$kotlin_version"
        classpath "io.realm:realm-gradle-plugin:5.4.1"
       // classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:3.0.0-beta1'
        // NOTE: Do not place your application dependencies here; they belong
        // in the individual module build.gradle files
    }
}

allprojects {
    repositories {
        configurations.all {
            resolutionStrategy.eachDependency { DependencyResolveDetails details ->
                def requested = details.requested
                if (requested.group == 'com.google.android.gms') {
                    details.useVersion '12.0.1'
                }
                if (requested.group == 'com.google.firebase') {
                    details.useVersion '12.0.1'
                }
            }
        }
        google()
        jcenter()
    }
}

task clean(type: Delete) {
    delete rootProject.buildDir
}

And app level gradle

    apply plugin: 'com.android.application'

apply plugin: 'kotlin-android'


apply plugin: 'kotlin-android-extensions'

apply plugin: 'realm-android'


android {
    compileSdkVersion 27
    defaultConfig {
        applicationId "waleed.com.eventstoday"
        minSdkVersion 21
        targetSdkVersion 27
        versionCode 1
        versionName "1.0"
        testInstrumentationRunner "android.support.test.runner.AndroidJUnitRunner"
    }
    buildTypes {
        buildTypes {
            debug {
                buildConfigField "String", "baseUrl", '"www.google.com"'
                buildConfigField "String", "buildName", '"Development"'
                buildConfigField "String", "countryCode", '"+92"'
            }
            release {
                buildConfigField "String", "baseUrl", '"www.google.com"'
                buildConfigField "String", "buildName", '"Release"'
                buildConfigField "String", "countryCode", '"+92"'
                minifyEnabled false
                proguardFiles getDefaultProguardFile('proguard-android.txt'), 'proguard-rules.pro'
            }
        }
    }
}

dependencies {
    implementation fileTree(dir: 'libs', include: ['*.jar'])
    implementation "org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-stdlib-jdk7:$kotlin_version"
    implementation 'com.android.support:appcompat-v7:27.1.1'
    implementation 'com.android.support.constraint:constraint-layout:1.1.3'
    implementation 'com.android.support:design:27.1.1'
    testImplementation 'junit:junit:4.12'
    androidTestImplementation 'com.android.support.test:runner:1.0.2'
    androidTestImplementation 'com.android.support.test.espresso:espresso-core:3.0.2'
    implementation 'com.squareup.retrofit2:retrofit:2.3.0'
    implementation 'com.squareup.retrofit2:converter-gson:2.3.0'
    implementation 'com.squareup.okhttp3:logging-interceptor:3.4.1'
    implementation 'com.intuit.sdp:sdp-android:1.0.5'
    implementation 'com.facebook.android:facebook-login:4.35.0'
    implementation 'com.squareup.picasso:picasso:2.71828'
    implementation 'com.google.android.gms:play-services-auth:16.0.0'
    implementation 'com.parse:parsetwitterutils-android:1.10.6'
    implementation 'com.parse:parse-android:1.16.3'
    implementation 'io.smooch:core:5.12.1'
    implementation 'io.smooch:ui:5.12.1'
    implementation 'com.android.support:recyclerview-v7:27.1.1'
    implementation 'com.android.support:cardview-v7:27.1.1'
    implementation 'com.google.android.gms:play-services-maps:15.0.1'
}

repositories {
    mavenCentral()
}
realm {
    syncEnabled = true
}
apply plugin: 'com.google.gms.google-services'

Please do tell if there is any more information required. Any help will be appreciated. After the update its not working have also tried to downgrade the gradle to 3.1.0 but it did not work Just opened the values.xml in build->intermediates->incremental->mergeDebugResources->merge.dir->values->values.xml i have errors

urn:oasis:names:tc:xliff:document:1.2 showing URI is not registered

" xmlns:ns2="http://schemas.android.com/tools" showing URI is not registered

Answer 1

search for type="id" in whole project, then for every instance remove item tag contents, for example:

change this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<resources>
    <item name="item_click_support" type="id">2468</item>
</resources>

to this :

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<resources>
    <item name="item_click_support" type="id"/>
</resources>

Answer 2

In your project, go through all of the src/main/res/values/<name>.xml files and look for constructs like:

<item type="id" name="my_id">some random value here</item>

The thing is IDs can either have no value (creates a new ID) or refer to other IDs (using @id/other_id syntax in the value field). Just remove the values to match:

<item type="id" name="my_id"></item>

or

<item type="id" name="my_id"/>