title: Unity is unable to merge Android manifests build error
body: <p>In my Unity project, I have imported the plugins: <a href="https://www.assetstore.unity3d.com/en/#!/content/10825" rel="nofollow">Android Native Plugin</a> and Chartboost.</p>
  
  <p>Before importing the Chartboost unity package, I can successfully build and run on my Android device. But after importing the Chartboost package, I get this error when I'm trying to build and run.</p>
  
  <p>Here's the build error:</p>
  
  <pre><code>Error building Player: CommandInvokationFailure: Unable to merge android manifests. See the Console for more details. 
  /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0_40.jdk/Contents/Home/bin/java -Xmx2048M -Dcom.android.sdkmanager.toolsdir="/Users/user/Library/Android/sdk/tools" -Dfile.encoding=UTF8 -jar "/Applications/Unity/Unity.app/Contents/BuildTargetTools/AndroidPlayer/sdktools.jar" -
  
  stderr[
  Error: [Temp/StagingArea/AndroidManifest-main.xml:8, /Users/user/Documents/Unity Projects/Unity 5.0.0 projects/mygame/Temp/StagingArea/android-libraries/ChartboostSDK/AndroidManifest.xml:11] Trying to merge incompatible /manifest/application/meta-data[@name=com.google.android.gms.version] element:
    &lt;meta-data
        @android:name="com.google.android.gms.version"
  --    @android:value="6587000"&gt;
    &lt;meta-data
        @android:name="com.google.android.gms.version"
  ++    @android:value="@integer/google_play_services_version"&gt;
  Error: [Temp/StagingArea/AndroidManifest-main.xml:8, /Users/user/Documents/Unity Projects/Unity 5.0.0 projects/mygame/Temp/StagingArea/android-libraries/google-play-services_lib/AndroidManifest.xml:5] Trying to merge incompatible /manifest/application/meta-data[@name=com.google.android.gms.version] element:
    &lt;meta-data
        @android:name="com.google.android.gms.version"
  --    @android:value="6587000"&gt;
    &lt;meta-data
        @android:name="com.google.android.gms.version"
  ++    @android:value="@integer/google_play_services_version"&gt;
  ]
  stdout[
  
  ]
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Still new to Android development so I'm kinda at a lost. I've seen some posts online regarding a similar issue and from what I understand is that whenever using multiple plugins, there would also be multiple manifest files and Unity sometimes fails to combine the manifests due to different/conflicting values.</p>
  
  <p>I don't see any values conflicting in the error message though. How do I fix this? Any help is greatly appreciated.</p>
  
  <p>Update: With the help of Max Yankov, I am able to get past the <code>Unable to merge manifests error</code>. But I am now presented with a new error <code>Unable to convert classes into dex format</code></p>
  
  <p>Here's the log for that error: </p>
  
  <pre><code>Error building Player: CommandInvokationFailure: Unable to convert classes into dex format. See the Console for details.
  /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0_40.jdk/Contents/Home/bin/java -Xmx2048M -Dcom.android.sdkmanager.toolsdir="/Users/user/Library/Android/sdk/tools" -Dfile.encoding=UTF8 -jar "/Applications/Unity/Unity.app/Contents/BuildTargetTools/AndroidPlayer/sdktools.jar" -
  
  stderr[
  
  UNEXPECTED TOP-LEVEL EXCEPTION:
  java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: already added: Lcom/google/android/gms/actions/SearchIntents;
      at com.android.dx.dex.file.ClassDefsSection.add(ClassDefsSection.java:122)
      at com.android.dx.dex.file.DexFile.add(DexFile.java:161)
      at com.android.dx.command.dexer.Main.processClass(Main.java:732)
      at com.android.dx.command.dexer.Main.processFileBytes(Main.java:673)
      at com.android.dx.command.dexer.Main.access$300(Main.java:83)
      at com.android.dx.command.dexer.Main$1.processFileBytes(Main.java:602)
      at com.android.dx.cf.direct.ClassPathOpener.processArchive(ClassPathOpener.java:284)
      at com.android.dx.cf.direct.ClassPathOpener.processOne(ClassPathOpener.java:166)
      at com.android.dx.cf.direct.ClassPathOpener.processDirectory(ClassPathOpener.java:229)
      at com.android.dx.cf.direct.ClassPathOpener.processOne(ClassPathOpener.java:158)
      at com.android.dx.cf.direct.ClassPathOpener.process(ClassPathOpener.java:144)
      at com.android.dx.command.dexer.Main.processOne(Main.java:632)
      at com.android.dx.command.dexer.Main.processAllFiles(Main.java:510)
      at com.android.dx.command.dexer.Main.runMonoDex(Main.java:280)
      at com.android.dx.command.dexer.Main.run(Main.java:246)
      at com.android.dx.command.dexer.Main.main(Main.java:215)
      at com.android.dx.command.Main.main(Main.java:106)
      at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
      at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)
      at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
      at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:497)
      at SDKMain.main(SDKMain.java:129)
  1 error; aborting
  ]
  
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