play-services-ads:22.4.0 issue

[dcosmin-97]

[REQUIRED] Step 1: Describe your environment

• Unity version: 2021.3.30f1
• Google Mobile Ads Unity plugin version: 8.5.2
• Platform: Android - Unity Editor
• Mediation ad networks used, and their versions: Applovin 6.9.0, Liftoff 4.0.0, Meta 3.11.0, Mintegral 1.2.1, Pangle 2.3.0

[REQUIRED] Step 2: Describe the problem

Steps to reproduce:

If you force resolve, you will get
Assets/Plugins/Android/com.google.android.gms.play-services-ads-22.4.0.aar
Assets/Plugins/Android/com.google.android.gms.play-services-ads-base-22.4.0.aar
Assets/Plugins/Android/com.google.android.gms.play-services-ads-identifier-18.0.0.aar
Assets/Plugins/Android/com.google.android.gms.play-services-ads-lite-22.4.0.aar
Assets/Plugins/Android/com.google.android.gms.play-services-appset-16.0.1.aar
Assets/Plugins/Android/com.google.android.gms.play-services-base-18.2.0.aar
Assets/Plugins/Android/com.google.android.gms.play-services-basement-18.1.0.aar
Assets/Plugins/Android/com.google.android.gms.play-services-measurement-21.3.0.aar
Assets/Plugins/Android/com.google.android.gms.play-services-measurement-api-21.3.0.aar
Assets/Plugins/Android/com.google.android.gms.play-services-measurement-base-21.3.0.aar
Assets/Plugins/Android/com.google.android.gms.play-services-measurement-impl-21.3.0.aar
Assets/Plugins/Android/com.google.android.gms.play-services-measurement-sdk-21.3.0.aar
Assets/Plugins/Android/com.google.android.gms.play-services-measurement-sdk-api-21.3.0.aar

The resolve will complete without errors.

The issue when you try to build:
FAILURE: Build completed with 2 failures.

1: Task failed with an exception.
-----------
* What went wrong:
Execution failed for task ':launcher:processReleaseResources'.
> A failure occurred while executing com.android.build.gradle.internal.tasks.Workers$ActionFacade
   > Android resource linking failed
     C:\Users\Admin\.gradle\caches\transforms-2\files-2.1\00277a26865588baf0041d38a0cce91f\com.google.android.gms.play-services-ads-lite-22.4.0\AndroidManifest.xml:48:5-117: AAPT: error: unexpected element <property> found in <manifest><application>.

How to fix:
Assets\GoogleMobileAds\Editor\GoogleMobileAdsDependencies.xml
Change to:
androidPackage spec="com.google.android.gms:play-services-ads:[22.3.0]"

[NVentimiglia]

Hi @dcosmin-97

Confirmed the issue, thank you.

[xmx77]

Not work with me, untiy Unity version: 2021.3.29.
I try to change to :com.google.android.gms:play-services-ads:[22.3.0]
And to com.google.android.gms:play-services-ads:[22.4.0]
both of them not work.

[dcosmin-97]

Not work with me, untiy Unity version: 2021.3.29. I try to change to :com.google.android.gms:play-services-ads:[22.3.0] And to com.google.android.gms:play-services-ads:[22.4.0] both of them not work.

I can try to help you, what other SDK and mediations do you have in the game?
Also, delete all the resolved libraries and check for the remaining ones to exist in the main AndroidManifest.xml.

[xmx77]

Not work with me, untiy Unity version: 2021.3.29. I try to change to :com.google.android.gms:play-services-ads:[22.3.0] And to com.google.android.gms:play-services-ads:[22.4.0] both of them not work.

I can try to help you, what other SDK and mediations do you have in the game? Also, delete all the resolved libraries and check for the remaining ones to exist in the main AndroidManifest.xml.

Unity version: 2021.3.30f1
Google Mobile Ads Unity plugin version: v8.5.2
Platform: Android - Unity Editor

I have those SDKs :

• Firebase sdk
• facebook SDK
• Unity ADS

And the issue it was
`Execution failed for task ':launcher:processReleaseResources'.

A failure occurred while executing com.android.build.gradle.internal.tasks.Workers$ActionFacade
Android resource linking failed
/Users/dddddd/.gradle/caches/transforms-2/files-2.1/b786d6b8050a9adf09aae2d746c9c69e/com.google.android.gms.play-services-ads-lite-22.4.0/AndroidManifest.xml:48:5-117: AAPT: error: unexpected element found in .`

[dcosmin-97]

Not work with me, untiy Unity version: 2021.3.29. I try to change to :com.google.android.gms:play-services-ads:[22.3.0] And to com.google.android.gms:play-services-ads:[22.4.0] both of them not work.

I can try to help you, what other SDK and mediations do you have in the game? Also, delete all the resolved libraries and check for the remaining ones to exist in the main AndroidManifest.xml.

Unity version: 2021.3.30f1 Google Mobile Ads Unity plugin version: v8.5.2 Platform: Android - Unity Editor

I have those SDKs :

* Firebase sdk

* facebook SDK

* Unity ADS

And the issue it was `Execution failed for task ':launcher:processReleaseResources'.

A failure occurred while executing com.android.build.gradle.internal.tasks.Workers$ActionFacade
Android resource linking failed
/Users/dddddd/.gradle/caches/transforms-2/files-2.1/b786d6b8050a9adf09aae2d746c9c69e/com.google.android.gms.play-services-ads-lite-22.4.0/AndroidManifest.xml:48:5-117: AAPT: error: unexpected element found in .`

Well, I know that Unity ADS has some issues when you resolve. I have opened a separate issue for it.
If you set this to "com.google.android.gms:play-services-ads:[22.3.0]", you should not have com.google.android.gms.play-services-ads-lite-22.4.0
Make sure everything is deleted when you press delete resolved, it may have issues

[xmx77]

Not work with me, untiy Unity version: 2021.3.29. I try to change to :com.google.android.gms:play-services-ads:[22.3.0] And to com.google.android.gms:play-services-ads:[22.4.0] both of them not work.

I can try to help you, what other SDK and mediations do you have in the game? Also, delete all the resolved libraries and check for the remaining ones to exist in the main AndroidManifest.xml.

Unity version: 2021.3.30f1 Google Mobile Ads Unity plugin version: v8.5.2 Platform: Android - Unity Editor
I have those SDKs :

* Firebase sdk

* facebook SDK

* Unity ADS

And the issue it was `Execution failed for task ':launcher:processReleaseResources'.

A failure occurred while executing com.android.build.gradle.internal.tasks.Workers$ActionFacade
Android resource linking failed
/Users/dddddd/.gradle/caches/transforms-2/files-2.1/b786d6b8050a9adf09aae2d746c9c69e/com.google.android.gms.play-services-ads-lite-22.4.0/AndroidManifest.xml:48:5-117: AAPT: error: unexpected element found in .`

Well, I know that Unity ADS has some issues when you resolve. I have opened a separate issue for it. If you set this to "com.google.android.gms:play-services-ads:[22.3.0]", you should not have com.google.android.gms.play-services-ads-lite-22.4.0 Make sure everything is deleted when you press delete resolved, it may have issues

ok it's work ,
I don't understand you mean change "com.google.android.gms:play-services-ads:[22.3.0]" with Brackets
i just change like this "com.google.android.gms:play-services-ads:22.3.0"

Anyway thank you for help

[NVentimiglia]

Glad it is working, we are still looking into this issue.

[GodzillaDev]

Hi @NVentimiglia @dcosmin-97, I'm facing this issue as well, however after deleting the suggested libraries, in the error logs we still see the following error:
21:21:09 1: Task failed with an exception. 21:21:09 ----------- 21:21:09 * What went wrong: 21:21:09 Execution failed for task ':launcher:processReleaseResources'. 21:21:09 > A failure occurred while executing com.android.build.gradle.internal.tasks.Workers$ActionFacade 21:21:09 > Android resource linking failed 21:21:09 C:\Users\dev\.gradle\caches\transforms-3\2d9222cb9\transformed\jetified-com.google.android.gms.play-services-ads-lite-22.4.0\AndroidManifest.xml:48:5-117: AAPT: error: unexpected element <property> found in <manifest><application>. 21:21:09 21:21:09 21:21:09 * Try: 21:21:09 Run with --stacktrace option to get the stack trace. Run with --info or --debug option to get more log output. Run with --scan to get full insights. 21:21:09 ============================================================================== 21:21:09

21:21:09 2: Task failed with an exception. 21:21:09 ----------- 21:21:09 * What went wrong: 21:21:09 Execution failed for task ':launcher:bundleReleaseResources'. 21:21:09 > A failure occurred while executing com.android.build.gradle.internal.tasks.Workers$ActionFacade 21:21:09 > Android resource linking failed 21:21:09 C:\workspace\Temp\gradleOut\launcher\build\intermediates\bundle_manifest\release\bundle-manifest\AndroidManifest.xml:532: AAPT: error: unexpected element <property> found in <manifest><application>.

Could it have something to do with other sdks depending on that specific version of play-services-ads-lite-22.4.0? E.g AppsFlyer forcing it to revert to that version of play-services?

[qbit86]

@NVentimiglia > Confirmed the issue
@NVentimiglia > we are still looking into this issue.

I'm also facing this AAPT failure after updating AppLovin mediation adapters in Unity project.

Execution failed for task ':launcher:processReleaseResources'.
> A failure occurred while executing com.android.build.gradle.internal.tasks.Workers$ActionFacade
   > Android resource linking failed
     /Users/…/AndroidManifest.xml:622: AAPT: error: unexpected element <property> found in <manifest><application>.

We are using Gradle 6.5 with Gradle plugin 4.1.0:

classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:4.1.0'

Minimum SDK version (API level): 22
Target SDK version (API level): 33

Please let us know when you fix this!

[NVentimiglia]

Thanks for the update, we are still looking into this issue and hope to solve this soon.

[dcosmin-97]

Thanks for the update, we are still looking into this issue and hope to solve this soon.

Hello!
Is there an ETA for this and Unity Ads fixes? We cannot integrate them properly.
Thank you!