(Qt6 + Android + cmake) android folder is never copied to the build directory for the correct AndroidManifest

[oodledev]

So... I have been circling at this for a while and maybe I messed up something on my cmake file but even after setting up the source dir package qt creator and/or qtandroiddeploy tool never picks up my custom android manifest file.

What I have in my cmake

if(ANDROID)
    set(ANDROID_PACKAGE_SOURCE_DIR ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/android/ CACHE INTERNAL "")
    message(STATUS "${ANDROID_PACKAGE_SOURCE_DIR}")
endif()
if(ANDROID)
add_executable(app
    resources.qrc
    main_android.cpp
    android/AndroidManifest.xml
)

Whenever I run it it just doesn't pick up anything and it would just copy from the templates folder.

I have removed, cleaned out the dirs, etc. multiple times.