Compose Multiplatform string resources: only accepting "strings.xml"

[dbaroncelli]

Describe the bug I tried to migrate some Android string resources to a Compose Multiplatform project. These are multiple xml string files. I get the error: GenerateResClassTask was failed: java.lang.IllegalStateException: Unknown resource type: 'values'.

The error goes away only if I keep 1 file named "strings.xml". It seems it only accepts strings resource files called "strings.xml"

Affected platforms I tried only on Desktop

Versions

• Kotlin version*: 1.9.23
• Compose Multiplatform version*: 1.6.1
• OS version(s)* (required for Desktop and iOS issues): Mac Sonoma 14.4.1

To Reproduce Steps and/or the code snippet to reproduce the behavior:

1. create multiple XML string resource files inside the folder "commonMain/composeResources/values"

Expected behavior it should work with no errors

Additional context The error goes away only if I keep 1 file named "strings.xml". It seems it only accepts strings resource files called "strings.xml"

[terrakok]

1) it was by design and described in the documentation 2) it was fixed in the latest dev builds

[dbaroncelli]

Does it mean in the next release, we can have multiple resource string files?

[terrakok]

yes

[KevinnZou]

@terrakok I also encountered a similar issue here. It does not allow us to have the custom resource folder. Is it possible to open this restriction?