Visual Studio Cordova App添加插件作为可选功能

Question

I am having an issue in publishing my app in Google play when I include some plugins like cordova-plugin-geolocation in my app, as it adds the following 2 permissions in my manifest file

<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_COARSE_LOCATION" />

this causes an issue that some of the phones are not able to view the app in the google play as they tell me that android.hardware.location.network access is not compatible on those devices.

when I researched a bit more, I can see that this can be avoided by converting uses-permission to uses-feature and setting the android:required="false" then I can handle it in my code as this is not a must have feature for me.

My issue is I am unable to find how to change this in my visual studio project. can someone please help me understand whats the way to fix this?

Regards Kiran

Answer 1

There is no way within VS to add contents to your Android projects manifest file. You will have to hand edit those, but beware that these changes would be over-written every time you build your project through VS. There are couple of ways you can workaround this -

• You can add post_build Cordova hook that would update the Manifest file.
• You can add a gulp task and hook this to MSBuild post_build event through VS.

SOak (PM - Microsoft)