BroadcastReceiver names when ApplicationID is different from Manifest pack

[Michael Sung]

Hi,

I am trying to mimic INSTALL_REFERRER intents from Google Play using adb shell am.  I’m having some issues when my application ID in Gradle is different than my package name in my Manifest.

In my manifest, I define my BroadcastReceiver as:

        <receiver
            android:name=“.BroadcastReceiver"
            android:exported="true">
            <intent-filter>
                <action android:name="com.android.vending.INSTALL_REFERRER"/>
            </intent-filter>
        </receiver>

and my package is “com.example.package”.

In my app build.gradle file, I define my application ID:

    productFlavors {
        flavor {
            applicationId ‘com.flavor.applicationID'
            versionName ‘1.0.0'
        }
    }

What I am seeing, is that my BroadcastReceiver is not able to receive an explicit INSTALL_REFERRER intent unless the component specifying the name of the BroadcastReceiver includes the package name:

# fail
am broadcast -a com.android.vending.INSTALL_REFERRER -n com.flavor.applicationID/.BroadcastReceiver --es "referrer" "test_referrer=test”

# fail
am broadcast -a com.android.vending.INSTALL_REFERRER -n com.flavor.applicationID/com.flavor.applicationID.BroadcastReceiver --es "referrer" "test_referrer=test”

# fail
am broadcast -a com.android.vending.INSTALL_REFERRER -n com.example.package/com.example.package.BroadcastReceiver --es "referrer" "test_referrer=test”

# success
am broadcast -a com.android.vending.INSTALL_REFERRER -n com.flavor.applicationID/com.example.package.BroadcastReceiver --es "referrer" "test_referrer=test”

I’m wondering why my BroadcastReceiver does not receive the intent unless the package name is explicitly in the BroadcastReceiver’s name.  I’m also wondering how Google Play sends the INSTALL_REFERRER intent - I believe intents use the "com.flavor.applicationID/.BroadcastReceiver” component and I’m missing INSTALL intents.  If I explicitly specify the package name as the name of my BroadcastReceiver (com.example.package.BroadcastReceiver) in my Manifest, would Android still be able to route intents from Google Play to my BroadcastReceiver?

Thanks!

Best regards,

Michael Sung

[Xavier Ducrohet]

This is WAI. The format is <appId>/<FQCN of receiver>.

When you apply an applicationID in build.gradle you only affect the first one so your class name is still com.example.package.... You can look at the merged manifest to see that the merger expanded name=".BroadcastRecevier" to name="com.example.package.BroadcaseReceiver" (since you cannot express it as a relative path to the applicationId anymore)

Applying applicationId=... in build.gradle cannot go in and repackage your classes. It simply would not work, so we only affect the "package" attribute of the manifest, which is really the Application ID, not its package. This is why we renamed it in gradle to say applicationId as it's more obvious (or at least should be) that it does not affect your class package names.

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