Gradle Error - Could not call IncrementalTask.taskAction() on task ':project:mergeDebugResources'

Question

I updated Android Studio and started getting this error. I have no experience with gradle and as such can't seem to figure out what could be going wrong.

Here's the full error.

Gradle: Execution failed for task ':project:mergeDebugResources'. Could not call IncrementalTask.taskAction() on task ':project:mergeDebugResources'

Answer 1

So after reading up on gradle, I tried this command 'gradlew compileDebug --stacktrace' so as to see a more detailed error. It turns out the problem was actually a duplicate resource issue and gradle was just giving me a generic error.