I decided to open new question because none of those that are already posted, has a good answer.
I need to update AndroidManifest.xml "from plugin.xml", so that the <application>
tag has the following property, alongside those it already has:
android:name="mypackage"
How can do that?
Thank you
I had the same issue, and I used a Cordova hook to do the work.
First, edit your config.xml
file to add the hook:
<platform name="android">
<hook type="after_prepare" src="scripts/android_app_name.js" />
</platform>
Create a file called scripts/android_app_name.js
(set it executable), and inside, just use a search/replace function. It should look like:
#!/usr/bin/env node
module.exports = function(context) {
var fs = context.requireCordovaModule('fs'),
path = context.requireCordovaModule('path');
var platformRoot = path.join(context.opts.projectRoot, 'platforms/android');
var manifestFile = path.join(platformRoot, 'AndroidManifest.xml');
if (fs.existsSync(manifestFile)) {
fs.readFile(manifestFile, 'utf8', function (err,data) {
if (err) {
throw new Error('Unable to find AndroidManifest.xml: ' + err);
}
var appClass = 'YOU_APP_CLASS';
if (data.indexOf(appClass) == -1) {
var result = data.replace(/<application/g, '<application android:name="' + appClass + '"');
fs.writeFile(manifestFile, result, 'utf8', function (err) {
if (err) throw new Error('Unable to write into AndroidManifest.xml: ' + err);
})
}
});
}
};
Indeed, as jlreymendez mentioned, the right way is this:
<edit-config file="AndroidManifest.xml" target="/manifest/application" mode="merge">
<application android:name="com.mypackage.MyApplication"/>
</edit-config>
Also note that modifications will revert if you remove the plugin, what will not happen with the hook trick.
I think I had the same problem as you. I found this in the cordova documentation.
https://cordova.apache.org/docs/en/4.0.0/plugin_ref_spec.md.html
If you search the title "config-file Element" you will find an example:
<config-file target="AndroidManifest.xml" parent="/manifest/application">
<activity android:name="com.foo.Foo" android:label="@string/app_name">
<intent-filter>
</intent-filter>
</activity>
</config-file>
The simplest and the latest(cordova version 8.1.2) way to do it to use edit-config
tag like below.
<edit-config file="app/src/main/AndroidManifest.xml" mode="merge" target="/manifest/application">
<application android:name="mypackage" />
</edit-config>
In similar way you can edit other configurations as well.
Hope it will be helpful!