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Resource qualifiers

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You released your app in English, but then you wanted to add French and Spanish versions. You added the English qualifier for the default values directory and then added 2 other value directories with French and Spanish qualifiers. Now, when you try to build the app, you encounter an error message: "Android resource linking failed."

What is the reason behind that? Here is a snapshot from the res directory tree:

res/               
├── values-en/               
│   ├── strings.xml          # Strings in English
│   └── ...
├── values-fr/           
│   ├── strings.xml          # Strings in French
│   └── ...
├── values-es/           
│   ├── strings.xml          # Strings in Spanish
│   └── ...
└── ...

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There is no default values directory and hence no default strings file

There might be some missing string resources within your translation files

You have to also specify the region when you use language qualifiers

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