android studio 3.0 error: style attribute '@android:attr/windowEnterAnimation' not found

Question

I had followed steps of migrating to android studio 3.0 updgradation.

build.gradle

    flavorDimensions 'dimensionless'

D:Rmerchantprojapppopuplibraryuildintermediatesundlesdebug esvaluesvalues.xml Error:(28, 5) error: style attribute '@android:attr/windowEnterAnimation' not found.
C:Usersuser.gradlecachesransforms-1files-1.1appcompat-v7-25.3.1.aarf7bb6db2aa55d14683d1c9ddd8d49e03 esvaluesvalues.xml Error:java.util.concurrent.ExecutionException: com.android.tools.aapt2.Aapt2Exception: AAPT2 error: check logs for details
Error:Execution failed for task ':popuplibrary:processDebugAndroidTestResources'. Failed to execute aapt

Facing same issue but it is apccompat library also creating issue in my case.

style attribute '@android:attr/windowEnterAnimation' not found

gradlewrapper:

distributionBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
distributionPath=wrapper/dists
zipStoreBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
zipStorePath=wrapper/dists
distributionUrl=https://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-4.1-all.zip

build.gradle app:

   productFlavors {
                dev {
                    applicationIdSuffix '.dev'
                    versionName "1.0"
                    versionNameSuffix '-dev'
                    }
qa {
                    applicationIdSuffix '.qa'
                    versionName "1.0"
                    versionNameSuffix '-qa'
                    }
}


dependencies {
    compile fileTree(include: ['*.jar'], dir: 'libs')
    androidTestCompile('com.android.support.test.espresso:espresso-core:2.2.2', {
        exclude group: 'com.android.support', module: 'support-annotations'
    })


    compile 'com.android.support:appcompat-v7:25.3.1'
    compile 'com.android.support:design:25.3.1'
    compile 'com.android.support:cardview-v7:25.3.1'
    compile 'com.android.support.constraint:constraint-layout:1.0.2'
    testCompile 'junit:junit:4.12'
    //Butter Knife
    compile 'com.jakewharton:butterknife:8.7.0'
    annotationProcessor 'com.jakewharton:butterknife-compiler:8.7.0'

    compile project(':popuplibrary')
}

Answer 1

This issue is described in the migration guide for Android Gradle Plugin 3.0.0.

Incorrect use of @ resource reference symbols

AAPT2 now throws build errors when you omit or incorrectly place resource reference symbols (@). For example, consider if you omit the symbol when specifying a style attribute, as shown below:

<style name="AppTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.DarkActionBar">
  ...
  <!-- Note the missing '@' symbol when specifying the resource type. -->
  <item name="colorPrimary">color/colorPrimary</item>
</style>

When building the module, AAPT2 now throws the following build error:

ERROR: expected color but got (raw string) color/colorPrimary

Additionally, consider if you incorrectly include the symbol when accessing a resource from the android namespace, as shown below:

...
<!-- When referencing resources from the 'android' namespace, omit the '@' symbol. -->
<item name="@android:windowEnterAnimation"/>

When building the module, AAPT2 now throws the following build error:

Error: style attribute '@android:attr/windowEnterAnimation' not found

If you didn't make the mistake described in second half, then perhaps an old version of appcompat-v7 is to blame.

The good

Update to newer support libraries, pick 25.4.0 or 26.1.0 or 27.0.0. Make sure you match compileSdkVersion.

Note: If you choose to update to something older than 27.0.0 you may run into this issue.

The bad

If for some reason you're stuck with 25.3.1 or older you can disable AAPT2.

If you are experiencing issues while using AAPT2, you can disable it by setting android.enableAapt2=false in your gradle.properties file and restarting the Gradle daemon by running ./gradlew --stop from the command line.