Android Gradle merged Values.xml uses wrong namespace

Question

In the process of converting a project to the Android build system I get this error whenever I attempt to compile.

Gradle: Error parsing XML: prefix must not b

Answer 1

Read all my answer first : it seems that this error is due to another compilation problem...

Initially, to deal with this error, I updated my code like this:

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into this code:

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And it works for me at the beginning...but I had another compilation error due tu gradle configuration...and now that these compilation errors are corrected, my previous update does not work anymore. I had to add the namespace to generate the APK file.

So , be sure to correct all the compilation errors first before to deal with this error...