Entry name 'AndroidManifest.xml' collided (Build failed after updating the android gradle plugin to 3.6.0)

Question

I have recently updated the Android Studio from 3.5(stable) to 3.6(stable).

Then I saw the plugin update was also available, so I have updated the version of "com.an

Answer 1

I had the same issue with AndroidManifest.xml files colliding. First, I tried the useNewApkCreator workaround and it worked on the app variant I was working on. But when I switched to another variant, build was still successful but the app refused to install from Android Studio. Also installing the .apk manually gave parsing error on the device.

Finally, I analyzed the .apks from both variants and noticed that the broken .apk had the wrong AndroidManifest.xml in it. Excluding the manifest in packagingOptions worked though.