Could not find manifest-merger.jar (com.android.tools.build:manifest-merger:26.1.2) error after gradle 4.4 upgrade
The solution is quite simple, you have to invert jcenter() and google() repositories in your root build.gradle file (in mine jcenter() was first):
buildscript { repositories { google() jcenter() } dependencies { classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:3.1.2' // NOTE: Do not place your application dependencies here; they belong // in the individual module build.gradle files }}allprojects { repositories { google() jcenter() }}
I solved this by upgrading gradle wrapper version to gradle-4.10.1-all.zip
gradle-wrapper.properties
distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-4.10.1-all.zip