do you have any ideas? : )

pawel.rybicki: It seems that you can’t use the placeholder for the package in the manifest. Just like the error says. Why do you think it should be possible despite the error message?

Cuz I could swear that I did it in the past! : )

Previously the application id was retrieved from the manifest. Later on (long time ago, though) it was changed so that package in manifest is only sort of base package for the components. So you can write e.g.

.MyApplication

instead of

com.example.package.MyApplication

in the Manifest. It wouldn’t make much sense to modify manifests package based on application id. The upside is that now application id in gradle is exactly the package under which your app is installed on the device