Cordova config.xml preference android-installLocation

Question

 <platform name="android">
    <preference name="android-installLocation" value="auto" />
</platform>

Preference for android install location inside config.xml does not work. It is not passed inside the android manifest xml with prepare or build.

Answer 1

The solution I found in this issue was a plugin that make it possible to pass preferences from the config.cml to the android manifest, that are not passed automatically.

cordova plugin add cordova-custom-config
https://github.com/dpa99c/cordova-custom-config

Answer 2

For future reference:

In your config.xml , inside the <platform name="android"> tag, enter the following lines:

<edit-config file="app/src/main/AndroidManifest.xml" mode="merge" target="/manifest">
    <manifest android:installLocation="auto" />
</edit-config>

Explanation:

• The tag edit-config is used to modify XML-based configuration files (in this case - app/src/main/AndroidManifest.xml ).
• To target the manifest tag, we use the XML attribute target="/manifest" .
• Using the XML attribute mode="merge" , we then merge our own required XML Element with it (in this case - <manifest android:installLocation="auto" /> ).

Details about cordova edit-config here .

Details about android install location here .