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

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Error Details

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


        

Answer 1

For me this was actually failing because the new gradle versions. I am pretty sure that some plugins I'm using have incompatibilities with newest gradle. I ended up with success build having the following versions:

gradle-wrapper.properties file:

distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-4.10.1-all.zip

build.gradle file

 dependencies {
   classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:3.0.1'
 }

EDIT:

As we want to use 3.2.+ versions now, that isn't a reliable solution.

What I ended up doing is creating a new ids.xml file, and overriding all the values that have been conflicting.

ids.xml file example: