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Android Studio – AAPT: error: '@tools:sample/avatars' is incompatible with attribute src (attr) reference|color

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I am new to Android dev and am working on my first app. I have been running into trouble trying to get an image view set up with my own image (stock photos on studio are working fine), and am getting the following error:

AAPT: error: ‘@tools:sample/avatars’ is incompatible with attribute src (attr) reference|color.

What this error means.
How to troubleshoot this.
Where my mistake lies.**

this is the error it shows

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    In the latest Android Studio, there is a default avatar image added when you drag and drop an ImageView to the Component Tree, and it’ll add the line android:src="@tools:sample/avatars" to the ImageView tag by default. If you are replacing the default image with your custom_image Android Studio will automatically add another line app:srcCompat="@drawable/custom_image" to the ImageView tag, but it doesn’t remove the existing default avatar image reference. Removing android:src="@tools:sample/avatars" line from the ImageView tag helped me to get rid of this error.

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    But when it’s occurs in the main activity. After Removed the default line the image got disappeared Here is what happened

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