AAPT error: resource drawable/… not found

Question

After recently upgrading my android studio, I am not able to build my project anymore.

Every time I execute a build, I am struck with the following error:

Answer 1

In my case , I used a wrong reference to the android resource file i.e android:color/splash_bg instead of @color/splash_bg

where splash_bg represents my custom color resource declared in res/values/colors.xml file.