Build Release: Version code not found in manifest

Question

I generated a project using React-Native and followed the official RN guide to publish to Play Store.

When I get to the buildRelease step. This outputs the following error:

Execution failed for task ':java:packageReleaseBundle'. A failure occurred while executing com.android.build.gradle.internal.tasks.Workers$ActionFacade Version code not found in manifest.

When I use assembleRelease however, the build creates an apk without any issues. What am I missing?

The default config under app/build.gradle is configured as such:

defaultConfig {
    applicationId "com.company.appname"
    minSdkVersion rootProject.ext.minSdkVersion
    targetSdkVersion rootProject.ext.targetSdkVersion
    versionCode 1
    versionName "1.0.0"
    missingDimensionStrategy 'react-native-camera', 'general'
}

Answer 1

In my case, i had to disable enableSeparateBuildPerCPUArchitecture

def enableSeparateBuildPerCPUArchitecture = false