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?

Answer 1

Try this

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