android-maven-plugin - How to set up apkMetaIncludes?

Question

http://maven-android-plugin-m2site.googlecode.com/svn/apk-mojo.html#apkMetaIncludes

Pattern for additional META-INF resources to be packaged into the apk. The APK builder filters these resources and doesn't include them into the apk. This leads to bad behaviour of dependent libraries relying on these resources, for instance service discovery doesn't work. By specifying this pattern, the android plugin adds these resources to the final apk. The pattern is relative to META-INF, i.e. one must use:

<apkMetaIncludes>
    <metaInclude>services/**</metaInclude>
</apkMetaIncludes>

The META-INF folder is under src folder

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
    <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
    <groupId>br.com.alpha9.teste</groupId>
    <artifactId>testemvn</artifactId>
    <version>1.0.0</version>
    <packaging>apk</packaging>
    <name>testemvn</name>
    <build>
        <plugins>
            <plugin>
                <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
                <version>2.3.2</version>
                <configuration>
                    <source>1.6</source>
                    <target>1.6</target>
                </configuration>
            </plugin>

            <plugin>
                <groupId>com.jayway.maven.plugins.android.generation2</groupId>
                <artifactId>android-maven-plugin</artifactId>
                <version>3.5.0</version>
                <configuration>
                    <androidManifestFile>${project.basedir}/AndroidManifest.xml</androidManifestFile>
                    <assetsDirectory>${project.basedir}/assets</assetsDirectory>
                    <resourceDirectory>${project.basedir}/res</resourceDirectory>
                    <nativeLibrariesDirectory>${project.basedir}/src/main/native</nativeLibrariesDirectory>
                    <sdk>
                        <path>/Applications/android-sdk-macosx</path>
                        <platform>13</platform>
                    </sdk>
                    <undeployBeforeDeploy>true</undeployBeforeDeploy>
                    <apkMetaIncludes>
                        <metaInclude>services/**</metaInclude>
                    </apkMetaIncludes>
                </configuration>
                <extensions>true</extensions>
            </plugin>
        </plugins>
    </build>
    <dependencies>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>com.google.android</groupId>
            <artifactId>android</artifactId>
            <version>4.0.1.2</version>
            <scope>provided</scope>
        </dependency>
    </dependencies>
</project>

At the end, my APK has no services folder!

Answer 1

This is actually wrong in the javadoc. I will fix it. In the meantime this should work

<configuration>
  <apk>
    <metaIncludes>
      <metaInclude>services/**</metaInclude>
    </metaIncludes>
  </apk>
</configuration>

Of course I would also welcome feedback/confirmation that it works and potentially a pull request that updates the docs..