Android Studio doesn't can't resolve some @font references in xml [126165772]

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Description

be...@citymapper.com

created issue #1

Feb 25, 2019 07:33PM

Font references in layout files show up red if the font is defined as a reference to another font in a recources xml file
i.e.

<resources>
<item name="app_font" type="font">@font/some_other_font</item>
<resources>

Additionally in the above statement @font/some_other_font also cannot be resolved in the IDE, despite the font existing and the project building successfully.

Seen in AS 3.5 Canary 5

I've attached a small repro project (see layout/activity_main.xml and values/fonts.xml)

FontRefBug.zip

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be...@citymapper.com <be...@citymapper.com> #2Feb 25, 2019 07:36PM

Actually, the second part of that (@font/some_other_font not being resolved) doesn't seem to be the case after re-opening the project. The main issue (@app_font not being resolved by the IDE in layout files despite working correctly at build/run time) is still there however

rm...@google.com <rm...@google.com> #3Feb 28, 2019 09:46AM

Assigned to ch...@google.com.

Thank you for your feedback. Team may reach out for more feedback in reproducing or triaging this issue.

Message last modified on Feb 28, 2019 09:47AM

xa...@google.com <xa...@google.com> Mar 21, 2019 06:57PM

Reassigned to be...@google.com.

rp...@google.com <rp...@google.com> #4May 19, 2019 10:19PM

(Adding to 3.5 hotlist in case this is a regression)

be...@google.com <be...@google.com> #5May 20, 2019 10:48AM

This is not a regression, our XML stack doesn't handle "non-values" resource types well in res/values files. We'll have to rework it as soon as possible to fix this.

be...@google.com <be...@google.com> Mar 24, 2020 11:55AM

Reassigned to lu...@google.com.

lu...@google.com <lu...@google.com> #6Jun 24, 2020 11:44AM

Marked as fixed.

Thanks for the bug, this has been fixed in Android Studio 4.1 onwards. If you still experience any issues with font references, reply to this bug or open a new one!