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Tom
Tom

Reputation: 3627

INSTALL_FAILED_CONFLICTING_PROVIDER error message - but app has unique provider authorities ID

I currenly have a project system in Android Studio where I have many apps that share the same project structure and code.

Since I was unsuccessful in getting flavours fully working (other SO question), I have opted for the following system.

Whenever I need to change to on of my other apps i:

This actually works and only takes two minutes. However, when I am deploying my apps (in debug mode at least) and one of the other is already installed, I get INSTALL_FAILED_CONFLICTING_PROVIDER error message.

Now, this can of course be solved by deleting the old app, but I would like to have all my apps installed at the same time.

What i do not quite understand is that each app is compiled with its own manifest file where provider is defined like this:

<provider
  android:name="android.support.v4.content.FileProvider"
  android:authorities="com.example-app-flavour-1.app.fileprovider"
  android:grantUriPermissions="true"
  android:exported="false">
  <meta-data android:name="android.support.FILE_PROVIDER_PATHS" android:resource="@xml/provider_filepaths" />
</provider>

i.e. each app is compiled with unique authorities

I have tried to

What am i missing here?

(Naurally I would like to get Android Studio gradle flavours to work some day, but for now I am switching my focus to this since it so close working perfectly with minimal trouble each time I need to switch app)

Upvotes: 1

Views: 445

Answers (1)

Tom
Tom

Reputation: 3627

The gradle also needs to contain this 

defaultConfig {
  applicationId "com.example.app"
}

I had left it out completely

Upvotes: 1

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