build - Gradle: How to merge Android manifest files for different buildTypes which need the same Activity, but with different intent-filters

Question

so I'm trying to use gradle to create a separate buildType, but that buildType needs to use different characteristics for the same Activity. In this case, my splash activity needs a different intent-filter depending on buildType. Is this possible?

I get the following error in gradle:

:Tinder:processUtestManifest
[AndroidManifest.xml:67, AndroidManifest.xml:38] Trying to merge incompatible /manifest/application/activity[@name=com.<company_name>.activities.ActivitySplash] element:
  <activity
      @android:name="com.<company_name>.activities.ActivitySplash"
      <intent-filter>
          <action
--            @android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN">
  <activity
      @android:name="com.<company_name>.activities.ActivitySplash"
      <intent-filter>
          <action
++            @android:name="com.apphance.android.LAUNCH">

Answer 1

It's not possible to merge the intent-filter separately at the moment so I would recommend copying the whole <activity> node into

src/buildtype1/AndroidManifest.xml

and

src/buildtype2/AndroidManifest.xml

and it'll get merged automatically into the final manifest (of course you also want to remove it from the main manifest).