Access to AndroidManifest.xml for more complex entries

[MarkusPiotrowski]

Question

For building Android APKs it's sometimes necessary to have some access to the AndroidManifest.xml file. There are some possibilities to use pyproject.toml to hand over entries to the manifest, however, they seem to be limited.

So it is possibly to declare in pyproject.toml:

[tool.flet.android.permission]
"android.permission.BLUETOOTH_SCAN" = true

which will be translated into the AndroidManifest.xml as:

<!-- flet: end of permission    -->
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.BLUETOOTH_SCAN" />

However, what I need is a possibility to get more complex entries like:

<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION" android:maxSdkVersion="30" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.BLUETOOTH_SCAN" android:usesPermissionFlags="neverForLocation" />

(btw. this is a very important prerequisite for using Bluetooth LE)

and I can't see how I could achieve this. It also seems not to be possible to manually add these entries to the manifest because it is written during the build process and then used immediately.

It may be possible to somehow manipulate/change the template file (cookiecutter?), but this seems to be overly complicated.

In BeeWare you can pass entries from pyproject.toml to AndroidManifest.xaml with the following syntax:

android_manifest_extra_content = """
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.BLUETOOTH" android:maxSdkVersion="30" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.BLUETOOTH_ADMIN" android:maxSdkVersion="30" />
"""

See also my project bleekWare. I want to supply a similar module to use Bluetooth LE on Android devices with Flet.

So is it possible to pass/add compound expressions to AndroidManifest.xaml?

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• I have searched for answers to my question both in the issues and in previous discussions.

[FeodorFitsner]

Yep, that would be easy to add. Will implement it in the next minor update coming this week.