Android - Inner element must either be a resource reference or empty

Question

Error Details

AGPBI: {\"kind\":\"error\",\"text\":\"error: \\u003citem\\u003e inner element must either be a resource reference or empty         


        

Answer 1

I had a similar issue after upgrading to Android Studio 3.2.1

The error was pointing to this item in ids.xml file

Activation

As mentioned by the user Sangeet Suresh, I changed it to

That fixed the issue.