How to disable manifest merging in Android Studio

Question

I am having a hard time removing unnecessary (permissions) stuff from my manifest file after compiling and sigining a release version of my app. I simply don't want anything merged from other libraries's manifest files. I have my own manifest file and thats it. no other manifest should be merged in

anyone knows how to completely disable manifest merging?

Does [this answer](http://stackoverflow.com/a/13959122/2911458) help? — stkent, Jan 07 '15 at 23:41

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 20 '15 at 21:58

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Try this

 android.applicationVariants.all{ variant ->
   variant.outputs.each { output ->
     output.processResources.manifestFile = file('AndroidManifest.xml')
     output.processManifest.enabled=false
   }
 }

answered Apr 20 '15 at 21:58

Uma sankar pradhan

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This doesn't really work for different kinds of product flavors and build configurations once you clean the project. You will start getting errors messages when building, complaining that the manifest file could not be found. – Anyonymous2324 Nov 05 '15 at 14:39

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Nov 10 '15 at 09:28

What you need to do is disable the processManifest task so that it doesn't run and tell the processResources where the manifest to use is:

android.applicationVariants.all { variant ->
    variant.processResources.manifestFile = file('src/main/AndroidManifest.xml')
    variant.processManifest.enabled=false
}

This should work.

How to disable manifest merging in Android Studio

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