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I have an issue that is directly related to this question: How to have two build flavors inherit from a root flavor in Android Studio? but it makes sense to pull it out into another question. I have this in my build.gradle:

flavorGroups 'fruit', 'paid'

productFlavors {
    apple {
        flavorGroup 'fruit'
    }
    orange {
        flavorGroup 'fruit'
    }
    free {
        flavorGroup 'paid'
    }
    premium {
        flavorGroup 'paid'
    }
}

I have four unique applications at this point.

  1. Apple Free
  2. Apple Paid
  3. Orange Free
  4. Orange Paid

But they do not have unique package names/application ids just yet.

How do I set up four unique app ids/package names in this situation?

What I've tried?

In the previous question @Scott Barta suggested just to set the package names in the manifest for each of the four application.

When I tried creating four additional manifests (Note: I had my single "core" manifest before in /main) I got an error: Manifest merger failed : Main AndroidManifest.xml at AndroidManifest.xml manifest:package attribute is not declared. It seems as though I removed the package name from the core manifest file (in /main) it doesn't want to build.

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  • "Does this mean I need a package in my main/manifest?" -- my guess is that it means that you need your `orange` manifests with their `package` attributes. BTW, use `flavorDimension`, not `flavorGroup`, on current versions of the Gradle for Android plugin. – CommonsWare Jan 30 '15 at 13:45
  • I'll try that now. And yes, I know about flavorDimension, I just haven't upgraded to Android Studio 1.0 yet with the newest plugin(s) – EGHDK Jan 30 '15 at 13:50
  • @CommonsWare added packages to orange manifests. Now back at the error: `Error:Execution failed for task ':myApp:processAppleFreeDebugManifest'. > Manifest merger failed : Main AndroidManifest.xml at AndroidManifest.xml manifest:package attribute is not declared` – EGHDK Jan 30 '15 at 14:03
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    Per the "instructions" of the error message. I added a package in main/manifest and I get the error: `Error:Execution failed for task ':myApp:processAppleFreeDebugManifest'. > Manifest merger failed : Overlay manifest:package attribute declared at AndroidManifest.xml:2:5 value=(com.myapp.applefree) has a different value=(this.shouldnt.matter) declared in main manifest at AndroidManifest.xml:3:5 Suggestion : remove the overlay declaration at AndroidManifest.xml and place it in the build.gradle: flavorName { applicationId = "com.myapp.applefree" }` – EGHDK Jan 30 '15 at 14:08
  • Can you rework your question to be more clear about what you want and what things you've tried? I can't understand what you're asking. – Scott Barta Feb 04 '15 at 21:36
  • @ScottBarta rephrased the question. Hopefully that helps. – EGHDK Feb 09 '15 at 19:10

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The simplest way to customize the applicationId is to use Gradle's applicationIdSuffix property. Example below:

defaultConfig {
    applicationId 'com.example'
}

flavorGroups 'fruit', 'paid'

productFlavors {
    apple {
        flavorGroup 'fruit'
        applicationIdSuffix '.apple'
    }
    orange {
        flavorGroup 'fruit'
        applicationIdSuffix '.orange'
    }
    free {
        flavorGroup 'paid'
        applicationIdSuffix '.free'
    }
    premium {
        flavorGroup 'paid'
        applicationIdSuffix '.premium'
    }
}

Gradle has a full-featured programming language, Groovy, built in, so you can do more elaborate voodoo than this, but this is the easiest way.

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