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FAILURE: Build completed with 2 failures.

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Execution failed for task ':app:mergeReleaseResources'.

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> A failure occurred while executing com.android.build.gradle.internal.res.Aapt2CompileRunnable

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   > Android resource compilation failed

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     ERROR:/home/expo/workingdir/build/android/app/build/generated/res/react/release/drawable-mdpi/src_imgs_banner.png: AAPT: error: file failed to compile.

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2: Task failed with an exception.

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java.lang.StackOverflowError (no error message)

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BUILD FAILED in 4m 25s
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This normally means that you have a file called something like src/imgs/banner.png that is not actually a PNG.

e.g. if you’re on macOS or Linux you can use the file command to check what format the image actually is. I would guess it’s a JPEG.

You have two possible solutions:

  1. Rename the file to e.g. banner.jpg if it’s a JPEG.
  2. Convert the file to a PNG.
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