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Tag "provider" attribute authorities has invalid character '$'

VictorHGarciaVictorHGarcia USUniversity ✭✭
edited November 2015 in Xamarin.Android

Hello friends,

After upgrade to Xamarin 4 and also the Google Play services to v27 with AppCompat and all related. When compiling the Android version I get this error:

/Library/Frameworks/Mono.framework/External/xbuild/Xamarin/Android/Xamarin.Android.Common.targets: Error: Tool exited with code: 1. Output: /Users/demo/projectcrm.Android/obj/Debug/resourcecache/053893A3E164BC46F1518CFC64246007/AndroidManifest.xml:28: Tag <provider> attribute authorities has invalid character '$'.
(projectcrm.Android)

Find attached the AndroidManifest file content.

Any idea why this could be happening?

Thanks in advance

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  • Marina_GournianakiMarina_Gournianaki GRMember ✭

    I get this error too. Any updates?

  • ZARkZARk BEMember ✭✭
    edited February 2016

    I've narrowed down the issue to an update in Xamarin.GooglePlayServices.Measurement

    basically it adds in the manifest this line
    <provider android:authorities="${applicationId}.google_measurement_service" android:exported="false" android:name="com.google.android.gms.measurement.AppMeasurementContentProvider" />

    basically there's a new var "${applicationId}" that should get replaced with our applicationID , so, where do we define that variable ???

    in "plain android" : https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=193567

  • VictorHGarciaVictorHGarcia USUniversity ✭✭

    I was able to solve the issue. I had the package Xamarin.GooglePlayServices.Measurement, so I removed it and it started to compile just fine, for some reason this package was added mistakenly due we do not need it.

  • vsg24vsg24 TRMember ✭✭

    I don't know why Xamarin is ignoring this while most newer versions of GPS packages have a dependency on this ********* Xamarin.GooglePlayServices.Measurement!!!!

    Some people were able to fix it by adding a piece of code to gradle:

    android {
    defaultConfig.applicationId = "my.package.id"
}

    But guess what... we don't use Gradle in Xamarin so we are left we no choice! Do something NOW.

    The bests I could do to fix my problem with that package was to rollback to version 27.0.0 of GCM package that doesn't depend on Measurement.

  • BrijeshMathur.4068BrijeshMathur.4068 USMember ✭

    How you rolled back to earlier version of GCM. I'm also stuck in this issue.... I downloaded the GCM from nuget package manager and now the current version is 29.0.0.1 and it is creating the same problem which you solved by downgrading.

  • dcc-mobiledcc-mobile BEMember ✭✭

    Any luck / solution on this one ? We did an upgrade on the GCM package (v29) which now depends on the Measurement package, causing this weird build error.

  • BjarkeBjarke USMember ✭✭

    Having the same issue with the newest version. Did it work properly doing a rollback to version 27?

  • islamabdelhadyislamabdelhady USMember ✭

    Warning The 'menu' element is not declared.

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