TL;DR: Make sure any resources you define in an Android library project have globally unique names (e.g. by using a unique-prefix convention).
An Android library project is a "development project that holds shared Android source code and resources". But the resources are treated a bit differently than the source code: any project that uses the library gets the contents of LibraryProject/gen/com/example/R.java merged in with its own R.java file.
This is inevitable, because the underlying resources are identified by an int, and as all of the resources need to be merged into that single numbering space, they all have to be renumbered to ensure there are no clashes.
But in turn, this means that the identifiers for the resources (@id/this_thing, @string/that_thing) should also have globally unique names, because they are sharing the same namespace. As the docs say:
Since the tools merge the resources of a library project with those of a dependent application project, a given resource ID might be defined in both projects. In this case, the tools select the resource from the application, or the library with highest priority, and discard the other resource.
So if your library has a string called "@string/name", the chances are that it will be hard
for a user of your library to get at the resource – and it will be hard to figure out why not. So
it's best to stick with "@string/my_lib_name".
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