title: debug/AndroidManifest.xml elements not recognized during build in AndroidStudio
body: <p>I am working on porting an existing app to a new setup and I got almost everything working, but when I tried to build the project, I got the error that some of the elements in the debug/AndroidManifest.xml are not recognized. Here are some screenshots:</p>
  
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  <p>Any idea why that might be happening and how to fix that?</p>
  
  <p>This is my styles.xml</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?&gt;
  
  &lt;resources&gt;
  
  &lt;style name="CustomTheme" parent="android:Theme.Light"&gt;
      &lt;item name="android:windowBackground"&gt;@color/white&lt;/item&gt;
      &lt;item name="android:colorBackground"&gt;@color/white&lt;/item&gt;
  &lt;/style&gt;
  
  &lt;style name="home_page_buttons"&gt;  
      &lt;item name="android:layout_marginLeft"&gt;10dp&lt;/item&gt;
      &lt;item name="android:layout_marginRight"&gt;10dp&lt;/item&gt;    
      &lt;item name="android:textStyle"&gt;bold&lt;/item&gt;   
      &lt;item name="android:color"&gt;@color/white&lt;/item&gt;  
      &lt;item name="android:layout_height"&gt;45dip&lt;/item&gt;
  
      &lt;!-- &lt;item name="android:background"&gt;@drawable/white_button&lt;/item&gt;  --&gt;
  &lt;/style&gt;
  
  &lt;style name="home_page_two_buttons"&gt;    
      &lt;item name="android:textStyle"&gt;bold&lt;/item&gt;   
      &lt;item name="android:color"&gt;@color/white&lt;/item&gt;  
      &lt;item name="android:layout_height"&gt;45dip&lt;/item&gt;
  
      &lt;!-- &lt;item name="android:background"&gt;@drawable/white_button&lt;/item&gt;  --&gt;
  &lt;/style&gt;
  
  &lt;!-- Information Pages --&gt;
  &lt;style name="instruction_text"&gt;  
      &lt;item name="android:padding"&gt;10px&lt;/item&gt;
      &lt;item name="android:textSize"&gt;16sp&lt;/item&gt;    
  &lt;/style&gt;
  
  &lt;style name="instruction_quote"&gt;  
      &lt;item name="android:padding"&gt;10px&lt;/item&gt;
      &lt;item name="android:textSize"&gt;12sp&lt;/item&gt;    
  &lt;/style&gt;
  
  &lt;style name="instruction_heading"&gt;  
      &lt;item name="android:padding"&gt;10px&lt;/item&gt;
      &lt;item name="android:textSize"&gt;17sp&lt;/item&gt;   
      &lt;item name="android:textColor"&gt;@color/light_best_blue&lt;/item&gt;      
  &lt;/style&gt;
  
  &lt;/resources&gt;
  </code></pre>