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Could not compile my app in release mode due to `AAPT: error: resource android:attr/lStar not found.`

I can compile and run in debug mode, no problem.

But when I want to compile to release or profile mode I get:

Execution failed for task ':cached_video_player:verifyReleaseResources'.

The reported issue is: AAPT: error: resource android:attr/lStar not found.

Doing an build app bundle works though which I can't get it:

stephanedeluca@Angelantonio2019-2:~/development/shokaze/shokaze/functions$ flutter build appbundle
Changing current working directory to: /Users/stephanedeluca/development/shokaze/shokaze

Font asset "CupertinoIcons.ttf" was tree-shaken, reducing it from 283452 to 912 bytes (99.7% reduction). Tree-shaking can be disabled by providing the --no-tree-shake-icons flag when building your app.
Font asset "MaterialIcons-Regular.otf" was tree-shaken, reducing it from 1645184 to 16824 bytes (99.0% reduction). Tree-shaking can be disabled by providing the --no-tree-shake-icons flag when building your app.
Running Gradle task 'bundleRelease'...                            180,1s
✓ Built build/app/outputs/bundle/release/app-release.aab (68.3MB).

Anyone knows how to fix this?

Following are my attempts so far.

I've upgraded cached_video_player to 2.0.4 from 2.0.3 before but get the same issue.

cached_video_player: ^2.0.4 #^2.0.3

I also upgraded (android/build.gradle) my `kotlin_version to 1.9 (I was 1.8.22 before):

buildscript {
    ext.kotlin_version = '1.9.0' //'1.8.22'//'1.6.10'
    repositories {

Fnally, I also tried adding this line as suggested in the Resource linking fails on lStar SO answers:

    implementation "androidx.core:core-ktx:1.6.0"

But it did not fix the issue.

Here is the whole gradle trace is as follows:

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

* What went wrong:
Execution failed for task ':cached_video_player:verifyReleaseResources'.
> A failure occurred while executing com.android.build.gradle.tasks.VerifyLibraryResourcesTask$Action
   > Android resource linking failed
     ERROR:/Users/stephanedeluca/.gradle/caches/transforms-3/fb7be7b58c0779ade2219e6b1355257d/transformed/core-1.7.0/res/values/values.xml:105:5-114:25: AAPT: error: resource android:attr/lStar not found.


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

* Get more help at https://help.gradle.org

BUILD FAILED in 1m 34s
Exception: Gradle task assembleRelease failed with exit code 1
#0      throwToolExit (package:flutter_tools/src/base/common.dart:10:3)
#1      AndroidGradleBuilder.buildGradleApp (package:flutter_tools/src/android/gradle.dart:456:9)
<asynchronous suspension>
#2      AndroidGradleBuilder.buildApk (package:flutter_tools/src/android/gradle.dart:208:5)
<asynchronous suspension>
#3      AndroidDevice.startApp (package:flutter_tools/src/android/android_device.dart:578:7)
<asynchronous suspension>
#4      FlutterDevice.runCold (package:flutter_tools/src/resident_runner.dart:524:33)
<asynchronous suspension>
#5      ColdRunner.run (package:flutter_tools/src/run_cold.dart:57:28)
<asynchronous suspension>
#6      AppDomain.launch.<anonymous closure> (package:flutter_tools/src/commands/daemon.dart:648:9)
<asynchronous suspension>
#7      AppDomain.launch (package:flutter_tools/src/commands/daemon.dart:646:5)
<asynchronous suspension>
#8      RunCommand.runCommand (package:flutter_tools/src/commands/run.dart:638:15)
<asynchronous suspension>
#9      FlutterCommand.run.<anonymous closure> (package:flutter_tools/src/runner/flutter_command.dart:1336:27)
<asynchronous suspension>
#10     AppContext.run.<anonymous closure> (package:flutter_tools/src/base/context.dart:150:19)
<asynchronous suspension>
#11     CommandRunner.runCommand
command_runner.dart:212
<asynchronous suspension>
#12     FlutterCommandRunner.runCommand.<anonymous closure> (package:flutter_tools/src/runner/flutter_command_runner.dart:296:9)
<asynchronous suspension>
#13     AppContext.run.<anonymous closure> (package:flutter_tools/src/base/context.dart:150:19)
<asynchronous suspension>
#14     FlutterCommandRunner.runCommand (package:flutter_tools/src/runner/flutter_command_runner.dart:244:5)
<asynchronous suspension>
#15     run.<anonymous closure>.<anonymous closure> (package:flutter_tools/runner.dart:91:9)
<asynchronous suspension>
#16     AppContext.run.<anonymous closure> (package:flutter_tools/src/base/context.dart:150:19)
<asynchronous suspension>
#17     main (package:flutter_tools/executable.dart:91:3)
<asynchronous suspension>

And my android/app/build.gradle is as follows:

def localProperties = new Properties()
def localPropertiesFile = rootProject.file('local.properties')
if (localPropertiesFile.exists()) {
    localPropertiesFile.withReader('UTF-8') { reader ->
        localProperties.load(reader)
    }
}

def flutterRoot = localProperties.getProperty('flutter.sdk')
if (flutterRoot == null) {
    throw new GradleException("Flutter SDK not found. Define location with flutter.sdk in the local.properties file.")
}

def flutterVersionCode = localProperties.getProperty('flutter.versionCode')
if (flutterVersionCode == null) {
    flutterVersionCode = '1'
}

def flutterVersionName = localProperties.getProperty('flutter.versionName')
if (flutterVersionName == null) {
    flutterVersionName = '1.0'
}

apply plugin: 'com.android.application'
// START: FlutterFire Configuration
apply plugin: 'com.google.gms.google-services'
// END: FlutterFire Configuration
apply plugin: 'kotlin-android'
apply from: "$flutterRoot/packages/flutter_tools/gradle/flutter.gradle"

def keystoreProperties = new Properties()
def keystorePropertiesFile = rootProject.file('key.properties')
if (keystorePropertiesFile.exists()) {
    keystoreProperties.load(new FileInputStream(keystorePropertiesFile))
}

android {
    compileSdkVersion 33
    //flutter.compileSdkVersion
    ndkVersion flutter.ndkVersion

    compileOptions {
        sourceCompatibility JavaVersion.VERSION_1_8
        targetCompatibility JavaVersion.VERSION_1_8
    }

    kotlinOptions {
        jvmTarget = '1.8'
    }

    sourceSets {
        main.java.srcDirs += 'src/main/kotlin'
    }

    defaultConfig {
        // TODO: Specify your own unique Application ID (https://developer.android.com/studio/build/application-id.html).
        applicationId "com.shokaze.shokaze"
        // You can update the following values to match your application needs.
        // For more information, see: https://docs.flutter.dev/deployment/android#reviewing-the-build-configuration.
        minSdkVersion 24
        //flutter.minSdkVersion
        targetSdkVersion flutter.targetSdkVersion
        versionCode flutterVersionCode.toInteger()
        versionName flutterVersionName
    }

    signingConfigs {
        release {
            keyAlias keystoreProperties['keyAlias']
            keyPassword keystoreProperties['keyPassword']
            storeFile keystoreProperties['storeFile'] ? file(keystoreProperties['storeFile']) : null
            storePassword keystoreProperties['storePassword']
        }
    }
    buildTypes {
        release {
            signingConfig signingConfigs.release
        }
    }
}

flutter {
    source '../..'
}

dependencies {
    implementation "org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-stdlib-jdk7:$kotlin_version"

    // Sdl on Sunday July 23th 2023 see https://stackoverflow.com/questions/69021225/resource-linking-fails-on-lstar/69029908#69029908
    //implementation "androidx.core:core-ktx:1.6.0"

    def billing_version = "5.1.0" // for today, it's the latest
    implementation "com.android.billingclient:billing:$billing_version"
}
Solution

  • Seems like a gradle version issue from the package itself, try adding the below for the dependency in your pubspec.yaml:

     cached_video_player:
    git:
      url: https://github.com/vikram25897/flutter_cached_video_player
      ref: feature/gradle_version_bump