title: Can't make project in AndroidStudio with AndroidAnnotations library
body: <p>I've looked at several discussions and blogs about compiling Android Applications in Android Studio with AndroidAnnotations framework specially <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/16683944/androidannotations-nothing-generated-empty-activity">this one</a>, but none of them helped me to get started.</p>
  
  <p>I am using Android Studio 0.8.9 and I am pointing on a downloaded Gradle 2.1 binary.
  I am using Ubuntu 14.04 .</p>
  
  <p>The gradle compilation process says that I am missing a copy of AndroidManifest.xml at a given location (please, see the output below) though I've found it when navigating into this folder with my file explorer.</p>
  
  <p>Please also notice that in order to remove warnings, I replaced</p>
  
  <pre><code>variant.processResources.manifestFile
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>by</p>
  
  <pre><code>variant.outputs.processResources.manifestFile
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>in the gradle script.</p>
  
  <p>Here my gradle build script :</p>
  
  <pre><code>buildscript {
      repositories {
          mavenCentral()
      }
      dependencies {
          classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:0.13.2'
          classpath 'com.neenbedankt.gradle.plugins:android-apt:1.3'
      }
  }
  
  apply plugin: 'android'
  
  repositories {
      mavenCentral()
  }
  
  configurations {
      apt
  }
  
  dependencies {
      compile fileTree(include: '*.jar', dir: 'libs')
      compile files('libs/androidsvg-1.2.1.jar')
      compile 'com.android.support:appcompat-v7:20.0.0'
      compile 'org.androidannotations:androidannotations-api:3.0'
      apt 'org.androidannotations:androidannotations:3.0'
  }
  
  android {
      compileSdkVersion 20
      buildToolsVersion "20.0.0"
  
      defaultConfig {
          minSdkVersion 9
          targetSdkVersion 20
      }
  
      sourceSets {
          main {
              manifest.srcFile 'AndroidManifest.xml'
              java.srcDirs = ['src']
              resources.srcDirs = ['src']
              aidl.srcDirs = ['src']
              renderscript.srcDirs = ['src']
              res.srcDirs = ['res']
              assets.srcDirs = ['assets']
          }
  
          // Move the tests to tests/java, tests/res, etc...
          instrumentTest.setRoot('tests')
  
          // Move the build types to build-types/&lt;type&gt;
          // For instance, build-types/debug/java, build-types/debug/AndroidManifest.xml, ...
          // This moves them out of them default location under src/&lt;type&gt;/... which would
          // conflict with src/ being used by the main source set.
          // Adding new build types or product flavors should be accompanied
          // by a similar customization.
          debug.setRoot('build-types/debug')
          release.setRoot('build-types/release')
      }
  }
  
  def getSourceSetName(variant) {
      return new File(variant.dirName).getName();
  }
  
  android.applicationVariants.all { variant -&gt;
      def aptOutputDir = project.file("${project.buildDir}/source/apt/")
      def aptOutput = new File(aptOutputDir, variant.dirName)
      println "****************************"
      println "variant: ${variant.name}"
      println "manifest:  ${variant.outputs.processResources.manifestFile}"
      println "aptOutput:  ${aptOutput}"
      println "****************************"
  
      android.sourceSets[getSourceSetName(variant)].java.srcDirs+= aptOutput.getPath()
  
      variant.javaCompile.options.compilerArgs += [
              '-processorpath', configurations.apt.getAsPath(),
              '-AandroidManifestFile=' + variant.outputs.processResources.manifestFile,
              '-s', aptOutput
      ]
  
      variant.javaCompile.source = variant.javaCompile.source.filter { p -&gt;
          return !p.getPath().startsWith(aptOutputDir.getPath())
      }
  
      variant.javaCompile.doFirst {
          aptOutput.mkdirs()
      }
  }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Here my Gradle console output :</p>
  
  <pre><code>Information:Gradle tasks [:compileDebugSources]
  ****************************
  variant: debug
  manifest:  [&lt;my_home&gt;/AndroidStudioProjects/ChessPositionManagerAndroid/build/intermediates/manifests/full/debug/AndroidManifest.xml]
  aptOutput:  &lt;my_home&gt;/AndroidStudioProjects/ChessPositionManagerAndroid/build/source/apt/debug
  ****************************
  ****************************
  variant: release
  manifest:  [&lt;my_home&gt;/AndroidStudioProjects/ChessPositionManagerAndroid/build/intermediates/manifests/full/release/AndroidManifest.xml]
  aptOutput:  &lt;my_home&gt;/AndroidStudioProjects/ChessPositionManagerAndroid/build/source/apt/release
  ****************************
  :preBuild
  :preDebugBuild
  :checkDebugManifest
  :preReleaseBuild
  :prepareComAndroidSupportAppcompatV72000Library UP-TO-DATE
  :prepareComAndroidSupportSupportV42000Library UP-TO-DATE
  :prepareDebugDependencies
  :compileDebugAidl UP-TO-DATE
  :compileDebugRenderscript UP-TO-DATE
  :generateDebugBuildConfig UP-TO-DATE
  :generateDebugAssets UP-TO-DATE
  :mergeDebugAssets UP-TO-DATE
  :generateDebugResValues UP-TO-DATE
  :generateDebugResources UP-TO-DATE
  :mergeDebugResources UP-TO-DATE
  :processDebugManifest UP-TO-DATE
  :processDebugResources UP-TO-DATE
  :generateDebugSources UP-TO-DATE
  :compileDebugJava
  Note: Resolve log file to &lt;my_home&gt;/AndroidStudioProjects/ChessPositionManagerAndroid/build/source/apt/androidannotations.log
  Note: 18:29:17.724 [Daemon Thread 16] INFO  o.a.AndroidAnnotationProcessor:86 -     Initialize AndroidAnnotationProcessor with options {androidManifestFile=[&lt;my_home&gt;/AndroidStudioProjects/ChessPositionManagerAndroid/build/intermediates/manifests/full/debug/AndroidManifest.xml]}
  Note: 18:29:17.869 [Daemon Thread 16] INFO  o.a.AndroidAnnotationProcessor:117 - Start processing for 1 annotations on 8 elements
  Error:18:29:17.885 [Daemon Thread 16] ERROR o.a.h.AndroidManifestFinder:95 - Could not find the AndroidManifest.xml file in specified path : [&lt;my_home&gt;/AndroidStudioProjects/ChessPositionManagerAndroid/build/intermediates/manifests/full/debug/AndroidManifest.xml]
  Note: 18:29:17.886 [Daemon Thread 16] INFO  o.a.p.TimeStats:81 - Time measurements: [Whole Processing = 17 ms], [Extract Annotations = 13 ms], [Extract Manifest = 3 ms], 
  Note: 18:29:17.887 [Daemon Thread 16] INFO  o.a.AndroidAnnotationProcessor:131 - Finish processing
  Note: 18:29:17.954 [Daemon Thread 16] INFO  o.a.AndroidAnnotationProcessor:117 - Start processing for 0 annotations on 0 elements
  Note: 18:29:17.954 [Daemon Thread 16] INFO  o.a.p.TimeStats:81 - Time measurements: [Whole Processing = 0 ms], 
  Note: 18:29:17.955 [Daemon Thread 16] INFO  o.a.AndroidAnnotationProcessor:131 - Finish processing
  Warning:Unclosed files for the types '[dummy1412872157721]'; these types will not undergo annotation processing
  1 warning
  Error:Execution failed for task ':compileDebugJava'.
  &gt; Compilation failed; see the compiler error output for details.
  Information:BUILD FAILED
  Information:Total time: 3.981 secs
  Information:2 errors
  Information:1 warning
  Information:See complete output in console
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I would like to apologize if ever my error is too obvious, but I've been seeking for some hours, without success.</p>