References to other resources are not supported by build-time PNG generation

Question

AndroidStudio 3.0 / Android Gradle plugin 3.0

Answer 1

If your minSdkVersion is 21 you can disable the generation of PNG by adding this line:

// set to an empty list to disable the feature
vectorDrawables.generatedDensities = [] 

Removing this line will still generate the PNGs.

Source: http://google.github.io/android-gradle-dsl/current/com.android.build.gradle.internal.dsl.VectorDrawablesOptions.html