Execution failed for task ':app:processDebugResources'

Created fresh 0.52 RN project and installed plugin at last major release 6.0.0 and received the following error upon react-native run-android after following readme instructions:

:app:generateDebugAssets UP-TO-DATE
:app:mergeDebugAssets UP-TO-DATE
:app:generateDebugResValues UP-TO-DATE
:app:generateDebugResources UP-TO-DATE
:app:mergeDebugResources
:app:bundleDebugJsAndAssets SKIPPED
:app:processDebugManifest
:app:processDebugResources
/Users/jskidd3/Desktop/Apps/TestSVG/android/app/build/intermediates/res/merged/debug/values-v24/values-v24.xml:3: AAPT: Error retrieving parent for item: No resource found that matches the given name 'android:TextAppearance.Material.Widget.Button.Borderless.Colored'.
    
/Users/jskidd3/Desktop/Apps/TestSVG/android/app/build/intermediates/res/merged/debug/values-v24/values-v24.xml:4: AAPT: Error retrieving parent for item: No resource found that matches the given name 'android:TextAppearance.Material.Widget.Button.Colored'.
    
/Users/jskidd3/Desktop/Apps/TestSVG/android/app/build/intermediates/res/merged/debug/values-v24/values-v24.xml:3: error: Error retrieving parent for item: No resource found that matches the given name 'android:TextAppearance.Material.Widget.Button.Borderless.Colored'.

/Users/jskidd3/Desktop/Apps/TestSVG/android/app/build/intermediates/res/merged/debug/values-v24/values-v24.xml:4: error: Error retrieving parent for item: No resource found that matches the given name 'android:TextAppearance.Material.Widget.Button.Colored'.


:app:processDebugResources FAILED

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

* What went wrong:
Execution failed for task ':app:processDebugResources'.
> com.android.ide.common.process.ProcessException: Failed to execute aapt

* Try:
Run with --stacktrace option to get the stack trace. Run with --info or --debug option to get more log output.

BUILD FAILED

[jskidd3]

@msand Thanks again, changing the versions up from 23 to 25 fixed it

[msand]

Try this changeset: android/app/build.gradle

@@ -94,13 +94,12 @@ def enableSeparateBuildPerCPUArchitecture = false
 def enableProguardInReleaseBuilds = false
 
 android {
-    compileSdkVersion 23
-    buildToolsVersion "23.0.1"
+    compileSdkVersion 25
 
     defaultConfig {
         applicationId "com.svgpodtest"
         minSdkVersion 16
-        targetSdkVersion 22
+        targetSdkVersion 25
         versionCode 1
         versionName "1.0"
         ndk {
@@ -139,7 +138,7 @@ android {
 dependencies {
     compile project(':react-native-svg')
     compile fileTree(dir: "libs", include: ["*.jar"])
-    compile "com.android.support:appcompat-v7:23.0.1"
+    compile "com.android.support:appcompat-v7:25.4.0"
     compile "com.facebook.react:react-native:+"  // From node_modules
 }

android/build.gradle

@@ -3,9 +3,10 @@
 buildscript {
     repositories {
         jcenter()
+        google()
     }
     dependencies {
-        classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:2.2.3'
+        classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:3.0.1'
 
         // NOTE: Do not place your application dependencies here; they belong
         // in the individual module build.gradle files
@@ -20,5 +21,6 @@ allprojects {
             // All of React Native (JS, Obj-C sources, Android binaries) is installed from npm
             url "$rootDir/../node_modules/react-native/android"
         }
+        google()
     }
 }

android/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties

@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
+#Thu Jan 18 18:05:34 EET 2018
 distributionBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
 distributionPath=wrapper/dists
 zipStoreBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
 zipStorePath=wrapper/dists
-distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-2.14.1-all.zip
+distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-4.1-all.zip