Please someone fix this somehow :( Is CB-6511 really important enough to cause this? It feels like an edge case caused an issue for the majority.
- tommy On 14 Feb 2015 12:32 am, "Connor Pearson" <cjp...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm wondering what the status of CB-7827 is. It causes the APK and activity > name to be set to a hardcoded value. It's been open since October and has > more votes and watchers than any other Cordova bug. > > According to the Android documentation ( > > http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2011/06/things-that-cannot-change.html > ), > you should never change the android:name attribute. So developers working > on an already published app must perform a manual fix of several files > every time the android platform is added. > > The root cause of the issue is Cordova now hardcodes the main activity name > as CordovaApp (or MainActivity). This was done to fix CB-6511. I have a > couple of ideas for fixing this bug without regressing CB-6511: > > - Use the project name as the activity name then fall back to the hardcoded > name if the project name uses 16 bit characters. > > - Allow the user to specify android-activityName in config.xml. Similar to > android-versionCode. > > - Another option could be to combine the two, attempting to use > android-activityName first then falling back to the project name then > finally falling back the hardcoded name. > > Do you think any of these ideas are worth pursuing? I'd be willing to work > on a pull request, but I want to make sure I'm going in the right > direction. > > Thanks, > Connor >
