Error:com.android.tools.aapt2.Aapt2Exception: AAPT2 error: check logs for details

Question

This is the output of my Gradle console, I am unable to build my project

D:\\Android Projects\\....\\app\\src\\main\\res\\layout\\topic_view_header.xml
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Answer 1

Ensure that you use valid file types in your src/main/res/raw directory. In my case I had copied a .mov file along with a bunch of other files into my res/raw directory. I suspect the issue was that aapt was trying to process the .mov file and did not know what to do with it.