Resources referenced from the manifest cannot vary by configuration

Question

When I want to insert the follow meta-tag:

<meta-data
        android:name="com.android.systemui.action_assist_icon"
        android:resource="@mipmap/ic_launcher" />

I get the error message:

Resources referenced from the manifest cannot vary by configuration (except for version qualifiers, e.g. -v21.) Found variation in hdpi, mdpi, xhdpi, xxhdpi, xxxhdpi

How can I fix this?

Answer 1

Variation of resources in AndroidManifest.xml is detected as error.

It may be ignored like this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<manifest ...
          xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
          ...>

    ...

    <meta-data
            android:name="com.android.systemui.action_assist_icon"
            android:resource="@mipmap/ic_launcher"
            tools:ignore="ManifestResource" />

   ...

</manifest>

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Answer 2

I moved such strings to globalstrings.xml and removed the references from the locale files.