Question - IDE How to merge a custom AndroidManifest with the main one in Gamemaker Studio 2.3

[MegabyteDev]

I wrote a plugin for GMS2, and it requires some Androidmanifest entries too.
Usually, the sections (2 & 3) in the image below, work for most cases. But if we wanna add some attributes to the main application tag, then we would use the section 1 as in the image. But when we write something in section 1 like:

<application tools:replace="android:allowBackup" android:allowBackup=true></application>

Gamemaker copies the whole statement as it is inside the final merged "AndroidManifest.xml" and the Manifest merger fails. I also tried adding

tools:node="merge"

to the application tag still it doesn't merge.
Is there a way to make it merge the attributes only instead of copying the whole text?
I am also new to the gms2 game development, and I really could use some help, I'm stuck here from 2 days and I cannot find any solution to this. Any Help is greatly appreciated

 

[Mool]

I didnt read your text carefully, but I think I still can help you.

A lot of important android files you cant edit via GMS. You need to edit them via a normal text editor directly.

You can find these files in the runner folder, sadly you need to edit them once per runner update.

Here they are:


Look here how I do it for one of my extensions: https://github.com/Glim888/IronSource-for-GameMaker-Studio

 

[MegabyteDev]

@Mool yes, we can but currently doing that is not a solution but more like a workaround. What I want to achieve is directly related to the application tag in the manifest file. Instead of copying the text as inserted into the "First field of the manifest section" where we define gradle injections and manifest injections, it needs to take that text and merge it into the final main android manifest file.

Have you defined anything in the first section of manifest injections field?

 

[Mool]

maybe this?

More options you dont have, except editing the files directly.

 

[MegabyteDev]

@Mool Yes this works only if, there is no already existing attribute in the final application tag.
In your case clearTextTraffic doesnt exist by default, so no conflict arises.

But

android:allowBackup

already exists by default in every android application build. Its default value is false, but I need to set it to true, Is there any way?

 

[Mool]

I just can tell you, that I removed the android:allowBackup via editor, since i had problems with my extensions



Is there any way? yes use the workaround. Its done in 5sec

 

[Yuri Abel]

I didnt read your text carefully, but I think I still can help you.

A lot of important android files you cant edit via GMS. You need to edit them via a normal text editor directly.

You can find these files in the runner folder, sadly you need to edit them once per runner update.

Here they are:
View attachment 38092

Look here how I do it for one of my extensions: https://github.com/Glim888/IronSource-for-GameMaker-Studio

Hello @Mool I'm a beginner, is this change valid only when building the apk? or can i use in debug mode? because when I run the app on my smartphone for testing it rewrites the AndroidManifest and the error comes back, or I must be changing the wrong Manifest, thanks....

 

[Mool]

It works always. For testing and for releasing. I do this daily

 

[Yuri Abel]

It works always. For testing and for releasing. I do this daily

Yes it worked for me, it was on the wrong path, on the Mac the path to the runner is: /Users/Shared/GameMakerStudio2/Cache/runtimes/runtime-2.3.3.437/android/runner

Thank you very much...