Overriding Android APK package name from GYP

Lambros Lambrou

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Feb 4, 2014, 4:36:07 PM2/4/14

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Hi,

Does anyone know if it's possible to set the package name differently from the one in the AndroidManifest.xml when building an APK?

Our remoting/android/java/AndroidManifest.xml has:

package="org.chromium.chromoting"

but we'd like to change this string when building the remoting APK with the GYP flag branding=Chrome

It's currently possible to set some other things like android:versionCode and android:versionName but I can't find any way to set the package string.

I notice we've defined a GYP variable called manifest_package_name in these two files:

chrome/chrome_android.gypi: 'manifest_package_name': 'org.chromium.chrome.testshell',

content/content_shell.gypi: 'manifest_package_name': 'org.chromium.content_shell_apk',

However, it appears our tooling completely ignores this variable and always uses the package name from the AndroidManifest.xml

Could someone help me figure out the best way to achieve what I'm trying to do?

Thanks, Lambros

Chris Hopman

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Feb 4, 2014, 4:45:55 PM2/4/14

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For the Chrome apk, we build different channels with different package names by generating new .xml files for different channels.

It is possible that the apk building tools don't support specifying the package name in arguments (or outside of a manifest file). We do support merging of multiple manifests when building the apk, so it might be possible to use that to change the package name. See "library_manifest_paths" in java_apk.gypi.

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