Entry name 'res/drawable/notification_bg_low.xml' collided(KOTLIN) WHEN COMPILING IN ANDROID STUDIO

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Executing tasks: [:app:assembleDebug] in project D:\Users\jesus\AndroidStudioProjects\ejemploFoursquare

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Task :app:packageDebug FAILED

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

  • What went wrong:
    Execution failed for task ‘:app:packageDebug’.

A failure occurred while executing com.android.build.gradle.internal.tasks.Workers$ActionFacade
Entry name ‘res/drawable/notification_bg_low.xml’ collided

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BUILD FAILED in 2s
25 actionable tasks: 3 executed, 22 up-to-date

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Not really kotlin related. You can’t have two resources with the same name in an APK. Even if one or both are coming from libraries. The error is saying that the build is finding two resources with that notification_bg_low.xml name.