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Russ Wheeler
Russ Wheeler

Reputation: 2630

Android - dynamically built manifest

I am looking to have a shell app, that users then download data 'packs' to be used within the app.

My idea is that each new data pack will basically be a content provider with the data in.

Now, my question is, how can I get my shell app to load all the content providers into the manifest file.

My ideas/theories are

a) have a generic uri for the content providers, or one that ends in a * or other wildcard, so all content providers with the same starting package name are accessed (this is purely theoretical. I have no idea if you can do this or not)

E.g. android:name="com.example.russ.*">

b) have all the in my manifest so it checks to see if any of them are installed. This would be fine if I were doing 2 or 3 data packs but I will have hundreds

c) preferred choice - have the manifest file built/generated dynamically based on downloaded data packs, the names of which are stored locally.

Hopefully at least one of a or c are doable.

Thanks in advance

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1013

Answers (1)

Andi Krusch
Andi Krusch

Reputation: 1383

You can't dynamically change your manifest. One could thus give an application any permissions AFTER it is installed.

Upvotes: 1

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