I'm working on an SDK that uses an internal ContentProvider, I would like to use this SDK in a few projects, and declare it in the library manifest, so I've tried this:
<provider
android:name=".core.MyContentProvider"
android:authorities="${applicationId}"
android:exported="false"/>
What happens is the ${applicationId} is replaced with the packageName of the library and not the top apk related applicationId...
Is there a way to make sure that the launching applicationId would be placed in the android:authorities value?
Was running into the same problem with several different variants and unique IDs, and ended up going with replacing a placeholder key when Gradle is building the app, kind of like so:
Gradle 3+
android.applicationVariants.all { variant ->
variant.outputs.each { output ->
output.processManifest.doLast {
File manifestFile = file("$manifestOutputDirectory/AndroidManifest.xml")
replaceInFile(manifestFile, 'P_AUTHORITY', variant.applicationId)
}
}
}
def replaceInFile(file, fromString, toString) {
def updatedContent = file.getText('UTF-8')
.replaceAll(fromString, toString)
file.write(updatedContent, 'UTF-8')
}
Gradle < 3
android.applicationVariants.all { variant ->
variant.outputs.each { output ->
output.processManifest.doLast{
replaceInManifest(output, 'P_AUTHORITY', variant.applicationId)
}
}
}
def replaceInManifest(output, fromString, toString) {
def manifestOutFile = output.processManifest.manifestOutputFile
def updatedContent = manifestOutFile.getText('UTF-8').replaceAll(fromString, toString)
manifestOutFile.write(updatedContent, 'UTF-8')
}
And then in the manifest:
<provider
android:name=".core.MyContentProvider"
android:authorities="P_AUTHORITY"
android:exported="false"/>
That's come in handy quite a few times