gradle - Android Studio - mergeDebugResources exception

Question

I recently updated the Android Studio to it's latest version, and now I am experiencing a headache with an exception in Gradle build.

Every time I run the project, two or three times before it succeed, I get the following error:

Gradle: Execution failed for task ': ProjectName:
mergeDebugResources'.
Java.lang.NullPointerException (no error message)

After trying again a couple times, the error does not happen again until the next run.

Does anybody have any idea of why this is happening? The project worked just fine 'til the update, never got any error before...

Thanks!

Answer 1

It happens to me only when modifying the XML files on the project. If you rebuild the entire project before running (Build > Rebuild Project) it doesn't show up anymore.