phonegap build fail : Execution failed for task ':processDebugResources'

Question

When trying to build my app

phonegap local build android

I have this issue :

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.
* What went wrong:
Execution failed for task ':processDebugResources'.
> com.android.ide.common.process.ProcessException: org.gradle.process.internal.ExecException: Process 'command '/Users/xxxxxxxx/Library/Android/sdk/build-tools/23.0.2/aapt'' finished with non-zero exit value 1

I have no idea of how to resolve this, since this problem is mostly encoutered by people developing their app in java.

Thanks in advance for your answers

Answer 1

I had same issue. It turned out to be that I had bad (or missed) some icon/splash-screen images (ie: platforms/android/res/drawable-hdpi etc) and other images.

You can check that runnning './gradlew --debug clean build' from your platforms/android directory. Search in the log for the ':processDebugResources FAILED' string and close to it the file-name that caused the problem. In my case it was 'año nuevo.png' (the 'ñ' caused the issue)

If that doesn't work, have a look at these other SO-questions, they may help too:

• ionic build android failure - Execution failed for task processDebugResources

• Cordova build android error Execution failed for task ':processDebugResources'

• Android Studio build failed at "processDebugResources" when using 9-patch images

PS: Im using latest phonegap (6.3.0) and latest Android Studio (2.1.2)