Problems with AndroidManifest.xml not being updated

My androidmanifest.xml does not appear to be getting updated.

I change the version number and save it, run the app in the emulator.

Check the file, same as it was before I changed anything.

If I delete the file, it IS recreated but with the versionCode and versionName reset back to 1 and not the current version/build:

  android:versionCode="1"
  android:versionName="1"

The version could should increment and the version name should be what I have in the Titanium settings.

At present to publish I am having to change these manually but I am wondering what else is not being changed?

Is this a bug in 1.3? or is it something I am doing wrong?

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Editing your tiapp.xml file is a lot easier than maintaining custom manifests. During build it outputs a manifest with the parameters in it.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<ti:app xmlns:ti="http://ti.appcelerator.org">
...
    <android xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">    
        <manifest android:versionCode="2"
            android:versionName="1.2.0"
            android:installLocation="auto">
        </manifest>
    </android>
    <modules>
    </modules>
</ti:app>

Check in the Programing Guides section. You need to rename the AndroidManifest.xml to AndroidManifest.custom.xml and make your changes there.
— answered June 13th 2010 by Don Thorp
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- I am also having the same issue. I tried this but it creates a .gen file and still forces
  android:versionCode="1"
  android:versionName="1"
  
  when I use titanium to distribute. I am new to recompiling outside of titanium so I am not sure what to do next. I need to put up bug fix update to an app on the Market. I cannot because of this versioning issue.
  
  Any easy way out?
  
  — commented December 27th 2010 by salim ibrahim
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