[Android] Requiring images with Gradle 4 fails release builds

Problem

Hello guys, I ran into this issue when updating Gradle and Android Studio. Thanks for your help! Is this a bug report? Yes Have you read the Contributing Guidelines? Yes Environment Environment: OS: macOS Sierra 10.12.6 Node: 8.5.0 Yarn: 1.3.2 npm: 5.3.0 Watchman: 4.7.0 Xcode: Xcode 9.1 Build version 9B55 Android Studio: 3.0 AI-171.4408382 Packages: (wanted => installed) react: 16.0.0 => 16.0.0 react-native: 0.50.3 => 0.50.3 Target Platform: Android (22) Steps to Reproduce Requiring images with latest `gradle` fails release builds I created a small test project but here are the steps to reproduce it: 1. Init a new project: `react-native init Test` 2. Update to latest Gradle: - Open Android Studio and install recommended version - Build from Android Studio, it should ask you to update build tools, do so 3. Require an image in `index.js` 4. Run `cd android && ./gradlew assembleRelease` Expected Behavior The command `./gradlew assembleRelease` should not fail Actual Behavior Running `./gradlew assembleRelease` when the image is required from the JS fails with: [code block] If the image is not required, the command works fine. Reproducible Demo [code block] Workaround Adding `android.enableAapt2=false` to `android/gradle.properties` fixes the issue but it is only a workaround.