Unable to build project with gradle 4.1: “unknown element * found”

Question

After updating to Gradle 4.1 I\'m unable to build my project (all works fine with previous releases).

Basically it doesn\'t recognize AndroidManifest tags anymore an

Answer 1

The issue has been fixed in new gradle release (gradle-4.1-rc-2).

To solve add in your gradle-wrapper.properties:

distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-4.1-rc-2-all.zip