Font in XML with Android O

Question

Android O give font directory with new android-studio version 3.0 but when in drop font-file in font directory and run project it give me a error in font file in font directory. Error:Execution failed for task ':app:mergeDebugResources'.

/home/ttuser4/Downloads/fontPractice/app/src/main/res/font/Dancing_Script.ttf: Error: The file name must end with .xml

Answer 1

I also got the similar issue. To fix that i followed the below steps.

1. Updated Android Studio to latest canary build.
2. Change distributionUrl in project-dir/gradle/gradle-wrapper.properties to latest gradle distribution url(You can get the latest availability of gradle from here) to update the gradle version used to build like below.

   distributionUrl=https://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-4.1-milestone-1-all.zip

3. Then update com.android.tools.build:gradle version in the root build.gradle to the latest like below. (Note: Below mentioned version is the latest one when the answer is posted. The version might be change in future. So take care about that.)

buildscript {
    repositories {
        jcenter()
        maven {
            url 'https://maven.google.com'
        }
    }
    dependencies {
        classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:3.0.0-alpha4'
    }
}

allprojects {
    repositories {
        jcenter()
        maven {
            url 'https://maven.google.com'
        }
    }
}

task clean(type: Delete) {
    delete rootProject.buildDir
}

4. Sync, Clean and update the project.

It worked for me. Let me know with your comments.