How to replace a string for a buildvariant with gradle in android studio?

Question

I have two flavors of my project:

flavor1 -> packagename: com.example.flavor1 
flavor2 -> packagename: com.example.flavor2

Now I want

Answer 1

The answers are quite outdated, there are better ways now to archive it. You can use the command in your build.gradle:

manifestPlaceholders = [
            myPlaceholder: "placeholder",
    ]

and in your manifest:

android:someManifestAttribute="${myPlaceholder}"

more information can be found here: https://developer.android.com/studio/build/manifest-merge.html