Hello,
I hope this is not a duplicate but I didn't find a similar issue.
I'm developing for my company an Android app using the STSW-ST25SDK001 - Software Development Kit for ST25 Tags and Dynamic Tags (https://www.st.com/en/embedded-software/stsw-st25sdk001.html).
To use your SDK i have to include two artifacts:
- st25sdk-1.13.0.jar
- st25_android_reader_interface-1.0.12-release.aar, specific for Android
I see that the AAR includes an "application" tag in its AndroidManifest.xml, even if it's only a library and does not provide an Application class:
<application
android:allowBackup="true"
android:label="@string/app_name"
android:supportsRtl="true" >
</application>
This cause Gradle to complain and fail build with the following error:
Manifest merger failed : Attribute application@allowBackup value=(false) from AndroidManifest.xml:7:9-36
is also present at [st25_android_reader_interface-1.0.12-release.aar] AndroidManifest.xml:10:9-35 value=(true).
Suggestion: add 'tools:replace="android:allowBackup"' to <application> element at AndroidManifest.xml:5:5-50:19 to override.
We can use "
tools:replace" in our app manifest but it seems more of a workaround which makes the app build but sometimes still replaces the correct configuration as described here
https://stackoverflow.com/a/36626818/3853058
I think the "application" part in the AAR Manifest should be removed, is it possible please?
Thanks
