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

You should check your AndroidManifest.xml,make sure every element like 'action' or 'category' is in right position.

Answer 2

I have got the similar issue recently, The way I solved is by invalidating the cache. You can do that in android studio-> File-> Invalidate cache/ Restart.

After that it stop showing me those ActivityFeed error.

Answer 3

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'

Answer 4

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