cover from :https://stackoverflow.com/questions/45954209/issues-with-resources-generated-by-react-in-android-studio-3

I recently upgraded to Android Studio 3

gradle plugin: 3.0.0-beta2
gradle: 4.1

In our project we use: "react-native": "0.46.4" with the

codepush plugin.

Building:

gradlew assembleStagingDebug

works just fine, but as soon as I try to build production:

gradlew assembleProductionRelease

I get an error caused by resources that are created by react in the processProductinoReleaseResources task:

Issues:
 - ERROR: /Users/user/react/android/app/build/intermediates/res/merged/production/release/drawable-hdpi/node_modules_reactnavigation_src_views_assets_backicon.png uncompiled PNG file passed as argument. Must be compiled first into .flat file.
 - ERROR:  failed parsing overlays
        at com.android.builder.internal.aapt.v2.AaptV2Jni.buildException(AaptV2Jni.java:154)

In my conquest against this issue I tried it with disabling proguard like:

buildTypes {
        release {
            debuggable true
            minifyEnabled false
            shrinkResources false
        }
        debug {
            debuggable true
            minifyEnabled false
            println proguardFiles
        }
    }

HOW TO SOLVE IT?

In your gradle.properties file add following lines:

classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:3.0.0'
distributionUrl=https://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-4.1-all.zip
android.enableAapt2=false