when I migrate from AndroidStudio version Chipmunk to AndroidStudio version Electric Eel and dolphin my app cannot be released sign

Question

All xml files encoding are utf-8 and have <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

but when set shrinkResources false in build.gradle app is being built release without any problem but I want shrinkResources to be true

please help me what is the problem

Task :wallet:shrinkReleaseRes FAILED

Execution failed for task ':app:shrinkReleaseRes'.

A failure occurred while executing com.android.build.gradle.internal.transforms.ShrinkProtoResourcesAction ParseError at [row,col]:[1,1] Message: Content is not allowed in prolog.

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• I check all xml files they are correct
• I do clean and rebuild
• I do Invalidate Caches..

All xml files encoding are utf-8 and have <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

but when set shrinkResources false in build.gradle app is being built release without any problem but I want shrinkResources to be true

please help me what is the problem

Answer 1

For anyone who is still facing this issue, this might help.

I was facing this issue when using Gradle version 7.4.2, this got resolved when I updated Gradle version to 8.1.0. Apparently there is some issue with the previous Gradle version as mentioned in this thread.

https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/235863809?pli=1