How to write an AndroidManifest.xml combining different plugins?

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Hi guys. I have a project in which I'm using Vuforia and Easy Code Scanner. Both of them have iOS and Android dedicated plugins for this reason both of them have an AndroidManifest.xml.

Actually the plugins and the manifest of Vuforia are into the plugins folder while the Easy Code Scanner Stuff is in the plugin subfolder of the original package folder. When I try to activate the Easy Code Scanner a "class not found exception" is launched.

I moved the content into the plugins folder except for the AndroidManifest.xml file because there is already the one from Vuforia and I will get an "activity not found exception". I presume I have to merge the 2 different AndroidManifest.xml files. I tried to do that but I miserably failed.

Can anyone please give me an hint on how to perform this merge?

Thank you very much !!!

Answer 1

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Answer by luvcraft · Sep 20, 2013 at 01:44 AM

Easy answer:

copy AndroidManifest.xml from C:\Program Files (x86)\Unity\Editor\Data\PlaybackEngines\androidplayer to [your game]/Assets/Plugins/Android
edit that file to include everything needed by both of your plugins
Build and enjoy!

Crazy answer that I started typing first before I thought of Easy answer:

grab the Amazon Android SDK, and install the unitypackage.
look at the manifest.xml that it puts in Assets/Plugins/AmazonIAPAndroid , and create your own manifest.xml files following the same format, in their own folders in /Assets/Plugins . (so, you'd have one Assets/Plugins/Vuforia/manifest.xml and one Assets/Plugins/EasyCodeScanner/manifest.xml )
In the Unity Editor, under the "Amazon" drop down menu, run "generate androidmanifest.xml"
That should create an AndroidManifest.xml in Assets/Plugins/Android which combines the stuff you specified in the manifest.xml files (along with the Amazon IAP manifest stuff, which you can subsequently remove if you want to).
Build and enjoy!

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Eugenio · Sep 20, 2013 at 10:59 AM 0

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I really think I'm merging the features very badly. Could you please be so kind to do this for me so I can understand what I'm doing wrong? Ins$$anonymous$$d of using the scanner I'm uploading an example of prime[31] plugins manifest because now I'm also stucked with those that are much more urgent.

P31$$anonymous$$anifest and QCAR$$anonymous$$anifest are the files that come with the plugins. Android$$anonymous$$anifest is what I have merged. (please note that I changed the ext in txt).

Can you please check them for me?

androidmanifest.txt (6.0 kB)

p31manifest.txt (3.3 kB)

Eugenio · Sep 20, 2013 at 11:01 AM 0

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Sorry... here's the missing QCAR$$anonymous$$anifest.

Thank you very very much :)

qcarmanifest.txt (2.8 kB)

3rica · Feb 19, 2016 at 07:06 AM 0

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Your first answer (above) was working great for me, until I went to build a keystore-signed version of my project. Now, Unity seems to want me to change Android$$anonymous$$anifest.xml to manifest.xml in order to build: Error building Player: XmlException: 'manifest' is expected ....But, when I change the file name and then build, Unity overwrites parts of my manifest file!

mustafabdikani · Mar 01, 2017 at 07:51 PM 0

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Thank you so much i solved

Answer 2

As suggested by the Android Developers here's the general scheme:

 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
 
 <manifest>
 
     <uses-permission />
     <permission />
     <permission-tree />
     <permission-group />
     <instrumentation />
     <uses-sdk />
     <uses-configuration />  
     <uses-feature />  
     <supports-screens />  
     <compatible-screens />  
     <supports-gl-texture />  
 
     <application>
 
         <activity>
             <intent-filter>
                 <action />
                 <category />
                 <data />
             </intent-filter>
             <meta-data />
         </activity>
 
         <activity-alias>
             <intent-filter> . . . </intent-filter>
             <meta-data />
         </activity-alias>
 
         <service>
             <intent-filter> . . . </intent-filter>
             <meta-data/>
         </service>
 
         <receiver>
             <intent-filter> . . . </intent-filter>
             <meta-data />
         </receiver>
 
         <provider>
             <grant-uri-permission />
             <meta-data />
             <path-permission />
         </provider>
 
         <uses-library />
 
     </application>
 
 </manifest>

Well... in my case the same application was defined 2 times but with different configurations. What I did is to give priority to QCAR. I have merged the configurations by adding everything that were missed in the application defined for Vuforia. After that I copied all the activities from both the manifests and past them into the application. You should check that every activity is defined only once: if the same activity is defined in both the manifests, just proceed to merge them as done for the application.

Hope those hints could be useful for someone else :)

Answer 3

Answer by habibieamrullah · Jan 01 at 05:29 AM

Hey everyone, I can not find AndroidManifest.xml inside that directory (C:\Program Files (x86)\Unity\Editor\Data\PlaybackEngines\androidplayer).

I can only find LauncherManifest and UnityManifest xml files only.

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