Unity is unable to merge Android manifests build error

Question

In my Unity project, I have imported the plugins: Android Native Plugin and Chartboost.

Before importing the Chartboost unity package, I can successfully build and run on my Android device. But after importing the Chartboost package, I get this error when I'm trying to build and run.

Here's the build error:

Error building Player: CommandInvokationFailure: Unable to merge android manifests. See the Console for more details. 
/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0_40.jdk/Contents/Home/bin/java -Xmx2048M -Dcom.android.sdkmanager.toolsdir="/Users/user/Library/Android/sdk/tools" -Dfile.encoding=UTF8 -jar "/Applications/Unity/Unity.app/Contents/BuildTargetTools/AndroidPlayer/sdktools.jar" -

stderr[
Error: [Temp/StagingArea/AndroidManifest-main.xml:8, /Users/user/Documents/Unity Projects/Unity 5.0.0 projects/mygame/Temp/StagingArea/android-libraries/ChartboostSDK/AndroidManifest.xml:11] Trying to merge incompatible /manifest/application/meta-data[@name=com.google.android.gms.version] element:
  <meta-data
      @android:name="com.google.android.gms.version"
--    @android:value="6587000">
  <meta-data
      @android:name="com.google.android.gms.version"
++    @android:value="@integer/google_play_services_version">
Error: [Temp/StagingArea/AndroidManifest-main.xml:8, /Users/user/Documents/Unity Projects/Unity 5.0.0 projects/mygame/Temp/StagingArea/android-libraries/google-play-services_lib/AndroidManifest.xml:5] Trying to merge incompatible /manifest/application/meta-data[@name=com.google.android.gms.version] element:
  <meta-data
      @android:name="com.google.android.gms.version"
--    @android:value="6587000">
  <meta-data
      @android:name="com.google.android.gms.version"
++    @android:value="@integer/google_play_services_version">
]
stdout[

]

Still new to Android development so I'm kinda at a lost. I've seen some posts online regarding a similar issue and from what I understand is that whenever using multiple plugins, there would also be multiple manifest files and Unity sometimes fails to combine the manifests due to different/conflicting values.

I don't see any values conflicting in the error message though. How do I fix this? Any help is greatly appreciated.

Update: With the help of Max Yankov, I am able to get past the Unable to merge manifests error . But I am now presented with a new error Unable to convert classes into dex format

Here's the log for that error:

Error building Player: CommandInvokationFailure: Unable to convert classes into dex format. See the Console for details.
/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0_40.jdk/Contents/Home/bin/java -Xmx2048M -Dcom.android.sdkmanager.toolsdir="/Users/user/Library/Android/sdk/tools" -Dfile.encoding=UTF8 -jar "/Applications/Unity/Unity.app/Contents/BuildTargetTools/AndroidPlayer/sdktools.jar" -

stderr[

UNEXPECTED TOP-LEVEL EXCEPTION:
java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: already added: Lcom/google/android/gms/actions/SearchIntents;
    at com.android.dx.dex.file.ClassDefsSection.add(ClassDefsSection.java:122)
    at com.android.dx.dex.file.DexFile.add(DexFile.java:161)
    at com.android.dx.command.dexer.Main.processClass(Main.java:732)
    at com.android.dx.command.dexer.Main.processFileBytes(Main.java:673)
    at com.android.dx.command.dexer.Main.access$300(Main.java:83)
    at com.android.dx.command.dexer.Main$1.processFileBytes(Main.java:602)
    at com.android.dx.cf.direct.ClassPathOpener.processArchive(ClassPathOpener.java:284)
    at com.android.dx.cf.direct.ClassPathOpener.processOne(ClassPathOpener.java:166)
    at com.android.dx.cf.direct.ClassPathOpener.processDirectory(ClassPathOpener.java:229)
    at com.android.dx.cf.direct.ClassPathOpener.processOne(ClassPathOpener.java:158)
    at com.android.dx.cf.direct.ClassPathOpener.process(ClassPathOpener.java:144)
    at com.android.dx.command.dexer.Main.processOne(Main.java:632)
    at com.android.dx.command.dexer.Main.processAllFiles(Main.java:510)
    at com.android.dx.command.dexer.Main.runMonoDex(Main.java:280)
    at com.android.dx.command.dexer.Main.run(Main.java:246)
    at com.android.dx.command.dexer.Main.main(Main.java:215)
    at com.android.dx.command.Main.main(Main.java:106)
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)
    at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:497)
    at SDKMain.main(SDKMain.java:129)
1 error; aborting
]

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Answer 1

It looks like one of the plugins is saving the value of com.google.android.gms.version in the AndroidManifest.xml itself, and the other uses a string resource ; I suppose that there's a file integer.xml somewhere in the source, and when you find it, there would be a value of google_play_services_version hidden inside. The com.google.android.gms.version itself seems to be a required version of Google Play Services; it's reasonable that it would be backward compatible, so I would just pick the largest number out of those two. Check this for details (switch to "Something else" to see the configuration details).

Answer 2

For your second question:

This is most likely a result of having duplicate .jar files in your project.

See this answer for more information.

Answer 3

its very much straightforward, you need to navigate to location: \\Assets\\Plugins\\Android. Locate all AndroidManifest.xml files and update the sdk version as per the given error.

Answer 4

1 - (If you are VR developer)download "tools_r25.2.3-windows.zip" from " https://developer.android.com/studio/index.html " then replace it with tools folder in your Android Studio folder!!!

2 - You should work with unity version 5.5.0! the version 5.6.x doesn't work really good!!

3 - the best version for gvr-unity-sdk(If you are VR developer) is 1.0.3! The greater doesn't work good!!!

4 - (If you are VR developer)Right click on "My Computer" and select "Properties"/Go to "Advanced System setting"/Click "Environment Variables"/In "system variables" look for "Path" click on it then click "Edit" . In "variable value" add a semicolon sign(;) to the end of default path, then add the path of where u install Android Studio/platform-tools folder for example my path is "G:\\AndroidSDK\\platform-tools".......

I hope your problem will be solved!!!

Answer 5

Hi Guys I had an exact similar problem and the Unity thread I mean this link and this one said that update and change the API level and follow up the crap, I also highly recommend to update the android SKD and set JAVA_HOME and ANDROID_HOME in your system variables like me in the following picture

and set path variables for adb.exe and java.exe in your system like this one

BUT what I tried and fixed my problem was that I changed the build system to new Gradle ! and that was it.

Cheers =)