Posting this to save time for anyone else who might be having the same problem. I downloaded and installed the mobile SDK 1.18 into a clean installed of Android Studio 3.2.1 on a windows machine. When I attempt to build and run any of the sample applications the compiler crashed with an error pointing to the zip.c module included as part of the minizip library in the 3rd party directory. The solution was to obtain the minizip library from another source and overwrite what was included in the SDK.
