Android Manifest with @String reference - specifically android:authorities

Question

I have this issue with the manifest.

Looks like this may be a dupe of : Using @string for android:authorities in a ContentProvider

I have a provider with separat

Answer 1

With a bit more help from here android-maven-plugin and resource filtering

here https://github.com/jayway/maven-android-plugin/pull/115

and @Konstantin Pridluda I came to an acceptable conclusion.

What I did was to create a new folder within parent project folder called manifests. Then created two sub folder customer1Manifest and customer2Manifest

Inside each of these folders i created a copy of the manifest file then replaced the @string reference with the appropriate hard string authorities. (the normal manifest file is the debug auth)

Then in the POM i switched out the manifests for the appropriate ones like this.

    
     Customer1
     
         true
     
     
  ../manifests/customer1Manifest/AndroidManifest.xml
      
    
    
     Customer2
     
        ../manifests/customer2Manifest/AndroidManifest.xml
      
      

then later on in the android-maven-plugin phase did this

 
        com.jayway.maven.plugins.android.generation2
        android-maven-plugin
        true

        true
        
         ${customerManifest}
            .........
.......