Help! Every time I change my app icon, some XML resources are automatically generated with syntax errors
Using the latest Android Studio on Linux (v. 2025.3.4 Patch 1), when I change the app's default icon (by adding an image asset, either SVG or PNG), at least these three XML files are automatically generated/updated:
* values/ic_launcher_background.xml
* mipmap-anydpi-v26/ic_launcher.xml
* mipmap-anydpi-v26/ic_launcher_round.xml
However, after changing the icon, the project no longer compiles, displaying a syntax error message in these XML files. I noticed that these XML files ended up being generated with copyright comments starting on the first line (a valid XML should start with a line like this:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
, and the comments can come after).
Please see the following screenshot showing how one of these XML files is badly generated:
If I manually remove those xml comment lines, the project compiles fine and the icon are updated accordingly.
I don't know where this copyright message comes from, especially since it's placed in the wrong place.
I've already created a new project from scratch, cleaned the Android Studio configuration files directory, disabled a plugin called "copyright," and it didn't solve the problem.
Has anyone else experienced this? Thanks in advance.