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Can't generate signed APK for release Android Studio

At first i generated an apk normally using a key store i created, it worked but when i made some changes to a layout and an activity and tried generating an apk again, an error inside a generated build file of the modified layout interrupts the build process, the file is named after the layout which is like this "LayoutNameBinding.java"

Heres a screenshot of the error source error source

Heres the output of the build build output

  • deleted the previous APK files from the release folder
  • created a new key store
  • changed the output directory of the APK
Solution

  • Looks like this issue is related to this post.

    Try the following:

    1. Clean project
    2. Rebuild project
    3. Invalidate caches and restart

    Hopefully, this should solve the issue.