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As a workaround we added the following to our own manifest:
<provider
            tools:replace="android:authorities"
            android:name="com.google.android.gms.measurement.AppMeasurementContentProvider"
            android:authorities="${applicationId}.google_measurement_service"
            android:exported="false" />

You must have tools namespace defined in the xml.

I've also been affected by this!

@2 I also opened an issue with tools guys https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=193567 . I'm not really sure which team should fix it. There's another workaround there that in my opinion is cleaner.