Android Question What needs to be adjusted in the FileProvider manifest?

[Sandman]

This originates from my wish:

Ability to specify app manifest entries in b4xlib

This must have been mentioned before, but I was unable to find a thread about it so here we are. In our b4xlibs we can have a manifest file where we specify dependencies to other libraries. This is awesome. However, it does not describe the whole situation when we discuss dependencies. For...

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In that thread Erel said:

The problem with automatically adding snippets is that there are cases where you need to customize the snippet. This includes the FileProvider snippet.

But looking at the manifest from FileProvider, I cannot for the life of me see what needs to be customized. Can somebody please point to the thing that I am missing?

[class] FileProvider - share files

Edit: FileProvider is included as an internal library now. After investigating several issues with the current FileProvider code that you can find in the forum, I decided to make some improvements and implement it in a class. Starting from Android 7 (API 24) you cannot directly share file uris...

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[Erel]

The snippet:

AddManifestText(<uses-permission
android:name="android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE"
android:maxSdkVersion="18" />
)

AddApplicationText(
  <provider
android:name="android.support.v4.content.FileProvider"
android:authorities="$PACKAGE$.provider"
android:exported="false"
android:grantUriPermissions="true">
  <meta-data
android:name="android.support.FILE_PROVIDER_PATHS"
  android:resource="@xml/provider_paths"/>
  </provider>
)
CreateResource(xml, provider_paths,
<files-path name="name" path="shared" />
)

1. If you need the WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE permission for other reasons then you don't want to limit the maxSdkVersion to Android 4. Less relevant with recent restrictions but still.
2. There are some cases where developers wanted to change the shared path. You can find it on the forum. Maybe because of compatibility with an existing app that they are upgrading.