Could not find property 'processManifest' on com.android.build.gradle.internal.api.ApplicationVariantImpl

Question

I am currently trying to update Android Studio to 1.0.0-RC. This seems to require gradle Android plugin 1.0.0-rc1. After the update, I started having the following error:

`Could not find property 'processManifest' on com.android.build.gradle.internal.api.ApplicationVariantImpl_Decorated@b9da89c.`

With some digging, it seems that processManifest is one of the deprecated properties that were removed in 0.14.3 version . Any idea what the new property name is? The same user guide has not been updated for the new version, so I can't find any documentation for it.

EDIT: Here is the code that needs the property. I use it to inject some build-time values into the manifest:

applicationVariants.all { variant ->
        variant.processManifest << {
            def manifestOutFile = variant.processManifest.manifestOutputFile
            def newFileContents = manifestOutFile.getText('UTF-8')
                    .replace("{GOOGLE_MAPS_KEY}", variant.buildType.ext.google_maps_key)
            manifestOutFile.write(newFileContents, 'UTF-8')
        }
    }

Answer 1

I got this error as well after updating to Android Studio 1.0.0 on the Beta Channel. However, I could not find any reference in my own gradle files to processManifest . After some searching, I realized that I needed a new Robolectric gradle plugin:

https://github.com/robolectric/robolectric-gradle-plugin/releases

Using version 0.14.0 of the Robolectric Gradle Plugin (and version 2.4 of Robolectric) has resolved the error for me.

Answer 2

I have not been able to find a solution to the problem, but simply a workaround. Android Gradle plugin Version 0.11 introduces a new API called Manifest merger . It allows to achieve the same thing that my hack allowed me to do.

Here are the changes needed:

• Surround any variable that you inject in your manifest with "${GOOGLE_MAPS_KEY}"

• Define a manifestPlaceholders map in each BuildType. That is:

   buildTypes { debug { manifestPlaceholders = [GOOGLE_MAPS_KEY: "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"] } release { manifestPlaceholders = [GOOGLE_MAPS_KEY: "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"] } } 

That's it! The plugin will automatically replace those variables in your Manifest. Pretty neat!

Answer 3

According to the documentation for APK splits ( http://tools.android.com/tech-docs/new-build-system/user-guide/apk-splits ) this method has moved into VariantOutput (available via variant.outputs ):

Deprecation Warning : the current variant API contains some methods that have moved under its outputs. The method are still there, but will fail if there are 2+ outputs. They will be completely removed in 1.0 These are:

• get/setOutputFile
• getProcessResources
• getProcessManifest
• getPackageApplication/Library
• getZipAlign

Additional methods on VariantOutput

• String getAbiFilter()
• String getDensityFilter()
• Task getAssemble()
• String getName()
• String getBaseName()
• String getDirName
• set/getVersionOverride // optional versionCode override
• int getVersionCode() // returns either the versionCode override from the output or the versionCode from the variant itself

Answer 4

android.applicationVariants.all{ variant ->
variant.outputs.each { output ->
    output.processManifest.doLast{ 
    def manifestFile = output.processManifest.manifestOutputFile
    def updatedContent =manifestFile.getText('UTF-8').replaceAll("UMENG_CHANNEL_VALUE", "${variant.productFlavors[0].name}")
    manifestFile.write(updatedContent, 'UTF-8')
    }
}

}

I changed it in this way, which just add a new layer outside the older one. This works because processManifest is now in the outputs field. Think this could be helpful.

Answer 5

In my case I was getting this error because there was a dependency on a library folder specified in my settings.gradle . That folder had a lot of faulty configurations apparently. So as soon as I removed it from settings.gradle, the project compiled just fine.