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

For now using gradle 4.1, or even 4.2 on your gradle wrapper will break builds that have dependencies

I solved this issue by taking back my gradle classpath depency back to gradle 2.3.3

dependencies {
    classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:2.3.3'