I have errors in my android manifest file:
Error:Cannot read packageName from C:\\Users\\brandon\\AndroidStudioProjects\\MineDodge2\\app\\src\\main\\AndroidM
Thats simply because you either copied an already existing project and its files into your newly created project. Thereby causing Manifest conflict. Because the manifest copied belongs to the other project and its paths.
you need to recreated a manifest file in your own project file path and possibly manually copy the other project's manifest code into your newly created manifest file.