Gradle: How to merge Android manifest files for different buildTypes which need the same Activity, but with different intent-filters

Question

so I\'m trying to use gradle to create a separate buildType, but that buildType needs to use different characteristics for the same Activity. In this case, my splash activit

Answer 1

It's not possible to merge the intent-filter separately at the moment so I would recommend copying the whole node into

src/buildtype1/AndroidManifest.xml

and

src/buildtype2/AndroidManifest.xml

and it'll get merged automatically into the final manifest (of course you also want to remove it from the main manifest).