App Inventor Build error brainwave-controlled wheelchair android app

[John Julius Baldia]

I am trying to rebuild an app which was created in earlier version of Android Studio and Gradle
This is my error
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Android resource linking failed
Output: C:\Users\Emmanuel\Desktop\EEG_Algo_SDK_Android\Algo_SDK_Sample\app\build\intermediates\incremental\mergeDebugResources\merged.dir\values\values.xml:383: error: resource android:attr/preserveIconSpacing is private.
error: failed linking references.
Command: C:\Users\Emmanuel\.gradle\caches\transforms-1\files-1.1\aapt2-3.2.1-4818971-windows.jar\154bc09aebea320a0d66ccc657c2a964\aapt2-3.2.1-4818971-windows\aapt2.exe link -I\
C:\Users\Emmanuel\AppData\Local\Android\Sdk\platforms\android-19\android.jar\
--manifest\
C:\Users\Emmanuel\Desktop\EEG_Algo_SDK_Android\Algo_SDK_Sample\app\build\intermediates\merged_manifests\debug\processDebugManifest\merged\AndroidManifest.xml\
-o\
C:\Users\Emmanuel\Desktop\EEG_Algo_SDK_Android\Algo_SDK_Sample\app\build\intermediates\processed_res\debug\processDebugResources\out\resources-debug.ap_\
-R\
@C:\Users\Emmanuel\Desktop\EEG_Algo_SDK_Android\Algo_SDK_Sample\app\build\intermediates\incremental\processDebugResources\resources-list-for-resources-debug.ap_.txt\
--auto-add-overlay\
--java\
C:\Users\Emmanuel\Desktop\EEG_Algo_SDK_Android\Algo_SDK_Sample\app\build\generated\not_namespaced_r_class_sources\debug\processDebugResources\r\
--custom-package\
com.neurosky.algo_sdk_sample\
-0\
apk\
--output-text-symbols\
C:\Users\Emmanuel\Desktop\EEG_Algo_SDK_Android\Algo_SDK_Sample\app\build\intermediates\symbols\debug\R.txt\
--no-version-vectors
Daemon: AAPT2 aapt2-3.2.1-4818971-windows Daemon #0
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Please help us how to fix this error for our thesis.