Exception : AAPT2 error: check logs for details

Question

Task :processDebugResources Failed to execute aapt com.android.ide.common.process.ProcessException: Failed to execute aapt
    at com.android.builder.core.AndroidBui         


        

Answer 1

Seeing your logs :

at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:617) ... 1 more Caused by: com.android.tools.aapt2.Aapt2Exception: AAPT2 error: check logs for details at com.android.builder.png.AaptProcess$NotifierProcessOutput.handleOutput(AaptProcess.java:454) at com.android.builder.png.AaptProcess$NotifierProcessOutput.err(AaptProcess.java:411) at com.android.builder.png.AaptProcess$ProcessOutputFacade.err(AaptProcess.java:332) at com.android.utils.GrabProcessOutput$1.run(GrabProcessOutput.java:104)

I feel some PNG files are corrupted and were not parsed. Sometimes the images have an extension but are not real PNG.

You can check if the images in your project are real PNGs with the below command :

find . -type f -name "*.png" | xargs -L 1 -I{} file  -I {} | grep -v 'image/png; charset=binary$'

After getting the list use this site to convert them to PNG. Then check your build again.