@Strings not found in capacitor AndroidManifest.xml

[exhaler]

Hello everyone

I'm building an ionic project with jeduan/cordova-plugin-facebook4 cordova plugin, have included my facebook id and app name in the app/src/main/res/values/strings.xml like so:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <resources> <string name="app_name">UI</string> <string name="title_activity_main">UI</string> <string name="package_name">[redacted]</string> <string name="custom_url_scheme">[redacted]</string> <string name="fb_app_id">[redacted]</string> <string name="fb_app_name">UI</string> </resources>

Added the necessary facebook values to app/src/main/AndroidManifest.xml like so:
<meta-data android:name="com.facebook.sdk.ApplicationId" android:value="@string/fb_app_id"/> <meta-data android:name="com.facebook.sdk.ApplicationName" android:value="@string/fb_app_name" /> <activity android:name="com.facebook.FacebookActivity" android:configChanges="keyboard|keyboardHidden|screenLayout|screenSize|orientation" android:label="@string/fb_app_name" />

Locally building the app in Android studio works, however i'm building the production app in Azure DevOps using gradle and I keep getting the below error:
com.android.builder.internal.aapt.v2.Aapt2Exception: Android resource linking failed /Users/runner/work/1/s/android/capacitor-cordova-android-plugins/src/main/AndroidManifest.xml:6:1-93: AAPT: error: resource string/fb_app_id (aka capacitor.android.plugins:string/fb_app_id) not found. /Users/runner/work/1/s/android/capacitor-cordova-android-plugins/src/main/AndroidManifest.xml:7:1-97: AAPT: error: resource string/fb_app_name (aka capacitor.android.plugins:string/fb_app_name) not found. /Users/runner/work/1/s/android/capacitor-cordova-android-plugins/src/main/AndroidManifest.xml:8:1-177: AAPT: error: resource string/fb_app_name (aka capacitor.android.plugins:string/fb_app_name) not found.

The strings.xml and AndroidManifest.xml are checked in the branch.

My pipeline tasks:
bash: | npx cap update
task: Gradle@2 displayName: "Build APK using Gradle" inputs: gradleWrapperFile: "android/gradlew" workingDirectory: "android" tasks: "build" publishJUnitResults: false javaHomeOption: "JDKVersion" gradleOptions: "-Xmx3072m" sonarQubeRunAnalysis: false

[jcesarmobile]

moving to discussions since looks like it's not a capacitor issue but some problem on azure devOps