Make changes to build.gradle persistent

[Victor Bjelkholm]

We're building an application including push notifications from Pushwoosh and recently we had a couple of devices that cannot install the app because of conflicting provider.

We discovered that Pushwoosh requires us to do the following changes:

VERY IMPORTANT: If your version of Cordova is lower than 6.0.0, you will be unable to install more than one application with Pushwoosh plugin on the same Android device:
https://code.google.com/p/analytics-issues/issues/detail?id=784

As a workaround you can add the following code to your build.gradle:

android {
    defaultConfig.applicationId = "your.package.id"
}

This bug was fixed in Cordova 6.0.0.

As soon as I manually did these changes, the app is getting installed correctly.

However, these changes are not persistent since firstly, the build.gradle is generated and shouldn't be edited.
Secondly, our platforms/ directory is not in scm either.


How can I add things to the build.gradle without manually entering it there all the time?

Tried having a build.json looking like this:

{
  "android": {
    "defaultConfig": {
      "applicationId": "com.company.appName"
    }
  }
}

And running `phonegap run android --device --verbose --buildConfig build.json`

But the changes are not there in the build.gradle.


Any pointers and/or help is appreciated!

[Simon MacDonald]

You can fix it but adding a gradle file to the plugin. That's what I did for the phonegap-plugin-push repo:

https://github.com/phonegap/phonegap-plugin-push/commit/15b76632ac2849f1cb2f48e75a5292dfaa97de7f

Simon Mac Donald
http://hi.im/simonmacdonald

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[Victor Bjelkholm]

Thanks Simon for the proposed fix!

Seems however this is for a plugin if I'm not wrong. You know it would be similar to fix it for an application in the config.xml?

How would the syntax be in that case? Phonegaps documentation is lousy at listing how the structure works in the config.xml...

[Simon MacDonald]

Well, it's fixed in the latest version of Cordova Android so you could just upgrade that part of your project. Alternatively, just write your own plugin that only delivers the gradle file. That would be a 5 minute job.

Simon Mac Donald
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[Victor Bjelkholm]

Yeah, tried upgrading the cordova to 6 or later but Phonegap seems to locked at version < 5.

Also, could you give me some guidance on what you mean with writing my own plugin for this? I would have to wrap the PushWoosh plugin in my own plugin? Or I would have to add a plugin that goes to the build.gradle to overwrite it?

Pretty new with Phonegap so I'm sorry for any confusion from my side...

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[jcesarmobile]

It's not possible from the config.xml

On the docs I found this:

Extending build.gradle

If you need to customize build.gradle, rather than edit directly, you should create a sibling file named build-extras.gradle. This file will be included by the main build.gradle when present. Here's an example:

# Example build-extras.gradle
# This file is included at the beginning of `build.gradle`
ext.cdvDebugSigningPropertiesFile = '../../android-debug-keys.properties'
# When set, this function allows code to run at the end of `build.gradle`
ext.postBuildExtras = {
    android.buildTypes.debug.applicationIdSuffix = '.debug'
}

Note that plugins can also include build-extras.gradle files via:

<framework src="some.gradle" custom="true" type="gradleReference" />

So you can try that or create a simple plugin that doesn't have any code, just the gradleReference part.

[Simon MacDonald]

Oh you could just create a plugin.xml that only has something like the
following:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<plugin xmlns="http://www.phonegap.com/ns/plugins/1.0"
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:amazon="http://schemas.android.com/apk/lib/com.amazon.device.ads"
xmlns:rim="http://www.blackberry.com/ns/widgets"
id="phonegap-plugin-gradle-fix"
version="0.0.1">
<name>Gradle Fix</name>
<!-- android -->
<platform name="android">
<framework src="push.gradle" custom="true" type="gradleReference" />
</platform>
</plugin>

and include the above plugin.xml and the push.gradle from my repo in a
new git repo. Then you can just add that plugin to your app for a temp
fix.

Simon Mac Donald
http://hi.im/simonmacdonald

[Victor Bjelkholm]

Hey jcesarmobile!

I just tried adding the following build-extras.gradle to my root folder:

android {
    defaultConfig.applicationId = "com.typeform.antelope"
}

But doesn't seem to be setting the parameter at all. Probably doing something wrong on my end...

[Victor Bjelkholm]

Hey Simon! Thanks for this and for having the patience with me!

I created https://github.com/VictorBjelkholm/phonegap-application-id-fix-plugin to be included in my application.

Included it with "<plugin name="phonegap-plugin-gradle-fix" spec="https://github.com/VictorBjelkholm/phonegap-application-id-fix-plugin" />"

but still no changes in the build.gradle

[Simon MacDonald]

Whoops sorry, I cut too much stuff. You would need to adding something
like the following but it will conflict with the PushWoosh plugin. I
think the best options are to a) fix PushWoosh plugin or b) upgrade
android version


<config-file target="AndroidManifest.xml" parent="/manifest">
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.WAKE_LOCK" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.VIBRATE"/>
<uses-permission android:name="com.google.android.c2dm.permission.RECEIVE" />
<permission android:name="${applicationId}.permission.C2D_MESSAGE"
android:protectionLevel="signature" />
<uses-permission android:name="${applicationId}.permission.C2D_MESSAGE" />
</config-file>
<config-file target="AndroidManifest.xml" parent="/manifest/application">
<activity android:name="com.adobe.phonegap.push.PushHandlerActivity"
android:exported="true"/>
<receiver
android:name="com.google.android.gms.gcm.GcmReceiver"
android:exported="true"
android:permission="com.google.android.c2dm.permission.SEND" >
<intent-filter>
<action android:name="com.google.android.c2dm.intent.RECEIVE" />
<category android:name="${applicationId}" />
</intent-filter>
</receiver>
<service
android:name="com.adobe.phonegap.push.GCMIntentService"
android:exported="false" >
<intent-filter>
<action android:name="com.google.android.c2dm.intent.RECEIVE" />
</intent-filter>
</service>
<service
android:name="com.adobe.phonegap.push.PushInstanceIDListenerService"
android:exported="false">
<intent-filter>
<action android:name="com.google.android.gms.iid.InstanceID"/>
</intent-filter>
</service>
<service
android:name="com.adobe.phonegap.push.RegistrationIntentService"
android:exported="false">
</service>
</config-file>

Simon Mac Donald
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[Victor Bjelkholm]

Hey Simon!

Thanks for the help, I submitted a PR to Pushwoosh for them to fix it for all their users instead of just writing a solution for myself.

Thanks for all the pointers and examples, helps us enormously!