Android App from Library project loading two app icons

Question

I currently have an Android app that I've built, and my company plans to implement several different iterations of it - essentially the same app, but with modified resources. So, instead of creating entirely separate projects, I've used the core project as a library and created several shell projects for the variant child applications. Here's where I'm confused. When I launch my child app, Eclipse loads onto the device both the library version and the child version, both as fully functioning apps.

this is the manifest for the library:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
package="com.alot.rssviewer"
android:versionCode="1"
android:versionName="1.0" >

<uses-sdk
    android:minSdkVersion="14"
    android:targetSdkVersion="19" />

<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_COARSE_LOCATION" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE" />

<application
    android:allowBackup="true"
    android:icon="@drawable/launcher_96x96"
    android:label="@string/app_name"
    android:theme="@style/AppTheme" >
    <activity
        android:name="com.alot.rssviewer.activities.AlotRSSMainActivity"
        android:label="@string/app_name" >


        <meta-data
            android:name="android.app.default_searchable"
            android:value="com.alot.rssviewer.activities.AlotRSSSearchResultsActivity" />
    </activity>

    <!-- Search results activity -->
    <activity
        android:name="com.alot.rssviewer.activities.AlotRSSSearchResultsActivity"
        android:parentActivityName="com.alot.rssviewer.activities.AlotRSSMainActivity" >
        <intent-filter>
            <action android:name="android.intent.action.SEARCH" />

            <category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT" />
        </intent-filter>

        <meta-data
            android:name="android.app.searchable"
            android:resource="@xml/searchable" />
    </activity>

    <activity
        android:name="com.alot.rssviewer.activities.AlotRSSWebViewActivity"
        android:label="@string/title_activity_web_view"
        android:parentActivityName="com.alot.rssviewer.activities.AlotRSSMainActivity" >
    </activity>
    <activity
        android:name="com.alot.rssviewer.activities.AlotRSSFeedSettingsActivity"
        android:parentActivityName="com.alot.rssviewer.activities.AlotRSSMainActivity" >
    </activity>
    <activity android:name="com.mopub.mobileads.MoPubActivity" android:configChanges="keyboardHidden|orientation"/>
    <activity android:name="com.mopub.mobileads.MraidActivity" android:configChanges="keyboardHidden|orientation"/>
    <activity android:name="com.mopub.mobileads.MraidBrowser" android:configChanges="keyboardHidden|orientation"/>
    <activity android:name="com.mopub.mobileads.MraidVideoPlayerActivity" android:configChanges="keyboardHidden|orientation"/>  
    <receiver android:name="com.track.conversion.TrackingReceiver" android:exported="true" >
        <intent-filter>
            <action android:name="com.android.vending.INSTALL_REFERRER" />
        </intent-filter>
    </receiver>
</application>

And here is the manifest for my child project:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
package="com.alot.rssviewer.worldnews"
android:versionCode="1"
android:versionName="1.0" >

<uses-sdk
    android:minSdkVersion="14"
    android:targetSdkVersion="19" />

<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_COARSE_LOCATION" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE" />

<application
    android:allowBackup="true"
    android:icon="@drawable/launcher_96x96"
    android:label="@string/app_name"
    android:theme="@style/AppTheme" >
    <activity
        android:name="com.alot.rssviewer.activities.AlotRSSMainActivity"
        android:label="@string/app_name" >
        <intent-filter>
            <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />

            <category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
        </intent-filter>

        <meta-data
            android:name="android.app.default_searchable"
            android:value="com.alot.rssviewer.activities.AlotRSSSearchResultsActivity" />
    </activity>

    <!-- Search results activity -->
    <activity
        android:name="com.alot.rssviewer.activities.AlotRSSSearchResultsActivity"
        android:parentActivityName="com.alot.rssviewer.activities.AlotRSSMainActivity" >
        <intent-filter>
            <action android:name="android.intent.action.SEARCH" />

            <category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT" />
        </intent-filter>

        <meta-data
            android:name="android.app.searchable"
            android:resource="@xml/searchable" />
    </activity>

    <activity
        android:name="com.alot.rssviewer.activities.AlotRSSWebViewActivity"
        android:label="@string/title_activity_web_view"
        android:parentActivityName="com.alot.rssviewer.activities.AlotRSSMainActivity" >
    </activity>
    <activity
        android:name="com.alot.rssviewer.activities.AlotRSSFeedSettingsActivity"
        android:parentActivityName="com.alot.rssviewer.activities.AlotRSSMainActivity" >
    </activity>
    <activity android:name="com.mopub.mobileads.MoPubActivity" android:configChanges="keyboardHidden|orientation"/>
    <activity android:name="com.mopub.mobileads.MraidActivity" android:configChanges="keyboardHidden|orientation"/>
    <activity android:name="com.mopub.mobileads.MraidBrowser" android:configChanges="keyboardHidden|orientation"/>
    <activity android:name="com.mopub.mobileads.MraidVideoPlayerActivity" android:configChanges="keyboardHidden|orientation"/>  
    <receiver android:name="com.track.conversion.TrackingReceiver" android:exported="true" >
        <intent-filter>
            <action android:name="com.android.vending.INSTALL_REFERRER" />
        </intent-filter>
    </receiver>
</application>

</manifest>

I'm really confused as to what I've done wrong. I've read that you should have all your dependencies synced across both apps and I've also made sure that I only have the Launcher intent in only one activity, but I'm just kind of at a loss.

Thank you all for your help.

Answer 1

Have you tried removing more or less everything from the Lib manifest? You do not need permissions nor activity declarations in the lib.