Error - Android resource linking failed (AAPT2 27.0.3 Daemon #0)

Had exactly the same problem. Solved it by doing the following: Searching for and replacing com.android.support:support-v4:+ with com.android.support:support-v4:27.1.0 in the platform/android directory.

Also I had to add the following code to the platforms/android/app/build.gradle and platforms/android/build.gradle files:

configurations.all {
resolutionStrategy {
    force 'com.android.support:support-v4:27.1.0'
}}

Edited to answer "Where is this com.android.support:support-v4:+ setting ?" ...

The setting will probably(in this case) be in one of your plugin's .gradle file in the platform/android/ directory, for example in my case it was the starter-barcodescanner plugin so just go through all your plugins .gradle files :

Double check the platforms/android/build.gradle file.

Hope this helps.

The Android resource linking failed error can also appear if you have an error in any of your XML resources. In my case I was using the following line twice in one of my XML drawables in drawable folder:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

I removed the duplicate line and the error disappeared. The error was a bit misleading:

Android resource linking failed Output: /Users/johndoe/Desktop/myapp/app/src/main/res/layout/activity_main.xml:2: error: resource drawable/bg_main (aka com.example.myproject:drawable/bg_main) not found.

According to the above error, the first thing you need to do is to proof read all the drawable resources that are accessed in the activity_main because the chances are higher that you will find the error. In the worst case scenario you might end up checking all your resource files.