title: AndroidManifest.xml validation errors and app not recognizing uses:permission's
body: <p>All my projects in Android studio result in below error when I validate AndroidManifest.xml</p>
  
  <pre><code>Error:(3, 43) cvc-elt.1: Cannot find the declaration of element 'manifest'.
  Error:(1, 56) s4s-elt-schema-ns: The namespace of element 'x' must be from the schema namespace, 'http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema'.
  Error:(1, 56) s4s-elt-invalid: Element 'x' is not a valid element in a schema document.
  Error:(1, 56) schema_reference.4: Failed to read schema document 'null', because 1) could not find the document; 2) the document could not be read; 3) the root element of the document is not &lt;xsd:schema&gt;.
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>The application is not recognizing any of the permissions stated under . I tried <code>READ_CONTACTS</code> and S<code>END_SMS</code></p>
  
  <p>I validated AndroidManifest.xml and the xml is fine. </p>
  
  <p>Manifest code is : </p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?&gt;
  &lt;manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
      package="com.example.jyo.dedlymenu2" &gt;
      &lt;uses-sdk android:minSdkVersion="8" /&gt;
      &lt;uses-permission android:name="android.permission.SEND_SMS" /&gt;
      &lt;uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET" /&gt;
      &lt;uses-permission android:name="android.permission.READ_CONTACTS" /&gt;
      &lt;application
          android:allowBackup="true"
          android:icon="@mipmap/ic_launcher"
          android:label="@string/app_name"
          android:theme="@style/AppTheme" &gt;
          &lt;activity
              android:name=".MainActivity"
              android:label="@string/app_name" &gt;
              &lt;intent-filter&gt;
                  &lt;action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" /&gt;
  
                  &lt;category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" /&gt;
              &lt;/intent-filter&gt;
          &lt;/activity&gt;
          &lt;activity
              android:name=".Love"
              android:label="@string/title_activity_love" &gt;
          &lt;/activity&gt;
          &lt;activity
              android:name=".Friendship"
              android:label="@string/title_activity_friendship" &gt;
          &lt;/activity&gt;
          &lt;activity
              android:name=".Inspire"
              android:label="@string/title_activity_inspire" &gt;
          &lt;/activity&gt;
          &lt;activity
              android:name=".ThankYou"
              android:label="@string/title_activity_thank_you" &gt;
          &lt;/activity&gt;
          &lt;activity
              android:name=".AddLyrics"
              android:label="@string/title_activity_add_lyrics" &gt;
          &lt;/activity&gt;
          &lt;activity
              android:name=".LyricDetail"
              android:label="@string/title_activity_lyric_detail" &gt;
          &lt;/activity&gt;
  
          &lt;activity
              android:name=".PrintDB"
              android:label="@string/title_activity_print_db" &gt;
          &lt;/activity&gt;
      &lt;/application&gt;
  
  &lt;/manifest&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Please suggest where am going wrong.</p>