Gradle “manifest requires a placeholder substitution” error but manifestPlaceholders supplies a value

Question

I\'m trying to perform substitution within the AndroidManifest.xml file from the build.gradle android extension but am getting this error:

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Answer 1

You need to just add to the array. You are replacing it. Do this:

manifestPlaceholders = [encoding: "some value", version: cityVersion]

By declaring manifestPlaceholders twice for the same flavor/build type, your are replacing the previous one. After the previous one got replaced, your build failed because the property no longer exists.