@JaredB ,
I received this guidance from a fellow teammate:
Here’s another developer who faced this issue and it may be an external bug from google since the project works with grable version 8.0 beta. Apps build failed after upgrading AGP to 7.3.1 - #8 by wildhan
Adding “android.enableNewResourceShrinker=false” in gradle.properties might solve this issue.
Please let me know if this is helpful.