Android studio 3.0 Canary 6 A failure occurred while executing com.android.build.gradle.tasks.MergeResources$FileGenerationWorkAction

Question

All was fine until i updated the android studio to Canary 6, When i rebuild or clean or whatever with project it\'s throw :

A failure occurred while exec

Answer 1

I had the same issue. There were two ways to fix my case:

1. Adding vectorDrawables.useSupportLibrary = true

2. In my drawable vector xml files there were links to @color:

   I replaced with

   and the problem disappeared.