Android Studio: Gradle: error: cannot find symbol variable

Question

I was working on my app and everything was normal until I tried to display image in java.

I ran the app once and it ran normally, the picture was displayed. After th

Answer 1

If you are using multiple flavors?

-make sure the resource file is not declared/added both in only one of the flavors and in main.

Example: a_layout_file.xml file containing the symbol variable(s)

src:

flavor1/res/layout/(no file)

flavor2/res/layout/a_layout_file.xml

main/res/layout/a_layout_file.xml

This setup will give the error: cannot find symbol variable, this is because the resource file can only be in both flavors or only in the main.