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Android Instant Apps - Cannot find symbol from underlying asset

I have a base function module and a function module (you can call it "child"). The base functional module has a file with strings.xml files containing:

<resources>
   <string name="app_string">Test String</string>
</resources>

I am trying to refer to this string resource in a "child" function like below:

int resId = R.string.app_string;

Android Studio seems to respect this link and will even direct me to the resource app_string

when I click on it. However, during compilation, I am greeted with the following error message:

Error:(13, 25) error: cannot find symbol variable app_string

There is also a dependency in the Gradle build file for my "child" function:

dependencies {
   ...
   implementation project(':base')
}

I also tried compile project(':base')

but didn't have time.

Is there something glaring I am missing?

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Your base and child modules have different package names - let's say they com.example.base

and com.example.child

. Each of them contains its own set of resources, and their IDs will be collected in separate R packages:

  • com.example.base.R

  • com.example.child.R



Since you are trying to access a resource defined in the base module, you need to reference it with the fully qualified variable name that is com.example.base.R.string.app_string

.

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