Element type "application" must be followed by either attribute specifications, ">" or "/>" #2

Question

I keep getting an error that says, "Element type "application" must be followed by either attribute specifications, ">" or "/>"."

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    package="com.thenewboston.sammy"
    android:versionCode="1"
    android:versionName="1.0" >

    <uses-sdk
        android:minSdkVersion="8"
        android:targetSdkVersion="17" />

    <application android:allowBackup="true"
        android:icon="@drawable/ic_launcher"
        android:label="@string/app_name"

I'm getting the error right below this:

                <category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
            </intent-filter>
        </activity>
    </application>

</manifest>

Answer 1

As my friend said , check the right format

For me It was like this :

BEFORE :

<activity android:name=".DisplayMessageActivity" android:label="display_message_activity" 
</activity>

AFTER:

<activity android:name=".DisplayMessageActivity" android:label="display_message_activity" >
</activity>

Then the error disappeared

Answer 2

In my case, a comment had been placed (by the build tools?) inside the application tag:

    <application android:allowBackup="true"
        <!-- android:debuggable="true" -->
        android:icon="@drawable/ic_launcher"
        android:label="@string/app_name"
        android:theme="@style/GdxTheme">

After I removed the entire debuggable=true comment line - everything worked.

Answer 3

I just ran into this error for a completely different reason. For some reason Android Studio had replaced every instance of the string name with "name" (e.g. it wrapped them all in double quotes) in my XML. It completely broke everything.

I had to clear out the double quotes from everything, clean the project and rebuild it.

Answer 4

If you're a flutter developer and you're getting this exception you must know there are two AndroidManifest file in your flutter project. One is inside debug folder and another one is main folder. My main folder AndroidManifest is ok and well formatted but AndroidManifest in debug folder is not ok and not well formatted due to a git conflict.

you must fix this.