According to this answer How to solve "Your APK's version code needs to be higher than 2." in Google Play's Developer Console? I have just changed the vers
In my case I had something like this in my AndroidManifest,
javaCompileOptions {
annotationProcessorOptions {
arguments = [
'androidManifestFile': 'app\\build\\intermediates\\merged_manifests\\debug\\processDebugManifest\\merged\\AndroidManifest.xml'
]
}
}
here the 'androidManifestFile' location is wrong, changed it to
"androidManifestFile": "$projectDir/src/main/AndroidManifest.xml".toString()
everything worked