manifest-merging

Background In the past, when Eclipse&ADT were the official tools to develop for Android, you could simply use " manifestmerger.enabled=true " inside the " project.properties " of the app's project, and you got it merging all of the libraries' manifests automatically (and I've posted about it here ). This worked, sometimes. It had a lot of weird issues, and I always preferred to just avoid using it, and put what is needed into the main manifest file manually. The problem Somewhere on 2014, Google announced that the new Android-Studio (0.1 I think), together with Gradle, will allow you to choose

Background I maintain a library whose core functionality involves sharing programmatically-captured screenshots to external email applications. I use a FileProvider to accomplish this, which means my library's manifest contains a <provider> tag : <provider android:name="android.support.v4.content.FileProvider" android:authorities="${applicationId}.bugshaker.fileprovider" android:exported="false" android:grantUriPermissions="true"> <meta-data android:name="android.support.FILE_PROVIDER_PATHS" android:resource="@xml/filepaths" /> </provider> filepaths.xml is defined as follows: <paths> <files