Android-studio 3.4.0-3.4.2 Gradle ERROR: No value has been specified for property 'manifestOutputDirectory'

Question

when upgrading to android-studio 3.4.x/gradle build plugin 3.4.x /gradle 5.3 ... wondering if its an issue with the android plugin.

ERROR: No value has been spe         


        

Answer 1

In my case the problem was I opted in for incremental option

To solve the problem

open gradle.properties file and remove line

kapt.incremental.apt=true   //remove or comment this line