Using ${applicationId} in library manifest
You can use ${applicationId} in under manifest file. Just make sure that in your gradle file of that library doesn't have "applicationId". If you declared it in your gradle file under "defaultConfig", please remove it.
//So your gradle file of library(SDK) module looks like..
defaultConfig {
minSdkVersion Version.minSdk
targetSdkVersion Version.targetSdk
versionCode 1
versionName "1.0"
testInstrumentationRunner "androidx.test.runner.AndroidJUnitRunner"
}
//And your application gradle file looks like..
defaultConfig {
applicationId "com.example.android"
minSdkVersion Version.minSdk
targetSdkVersion Version.targetSdk
versionCode 1
versionName "1.0"
testInstrumentationRunner "androidx.test.runner.AndroidJUnitRunner"
}
Was running into the same problem with several different variants and unique IDs, and ended up going with replacing a placeholder key when Gradle is building the app, kind of like so:
Gradle 3+
android.applicationVariants.all { variant ->
variant.outputs.each { output ->
output.processManifest.doLast {
File manifestFile = file("$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