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Execution failed for task ':app:mergeReleaseResources'. after exp build:android

See original GitHub issue

React Native version: https://github.com/expo/react-native/archive/sdk-33.0.0.tar.gz

Describe what you expected to happen: The build is successful when I do not change the default icon in app.json but the build fails with the following error message when I change the icon. I have checked the icon, it is definitely a png file.

> Task :app:mergeReleaseResources FAILED
17 actionable tasks: 17 executed
[stderr] FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.
[stderr] * What went wrong:
[stderr] Execution failed for task ':app:mergeReleaseResources'.
[stderr] > java.util.concurrent.ExecutionException: com.android.builder.internal.aapt.v2.Aapt2Exception: Android resource compilation failed
[stderr]   /app/turtle/workingdir/android/sdk33/android-shell-app/app/src/main/res/mipmap-xxhdpi/ic_launcher.png: error: failed to read PNG signature: file does not start with PNG signature.

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Created 4 years ago
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thomdigithscommented, Sep 26, 2019

For feature googlers: in my case i just upgraded to RN 0.60, which places an empty ic_launcher_round.png file in my app/src/main/res/mipmax-xxx folders. Place a real png file there and the error should be gone!

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Ankit2388commented, Jul 23, 2020

this is work for me thank @KaoPengHsiang

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