jeromew
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11 months ago For a bit of documentation :
the current code patches android:isSplitRequired This attr has been deprecated - cf https://developer.android.com/reference/android/R.attr#isSplitRequired
The new requiredSplitTypes is documented as
I also found an old (now deleted) answer on stack overflow that stated something along the line of
for APKs generated by Google Play, a meta-data element is added to the Android manifest of the base APK that mentions that splits are required for the app to function properly.
the meta-data is called com.android.vending.splits.required.
Note that the meta-data is only present in the base APK not in the config split APKs. But config split APKs have the "split" attribute set in the manifest.
This is not documented since it's an internal implementation detail.
So there seems to be 2 kind of Bundle/Split Apks :
- bundles signed by the publisher to avoid the 100MB limit per apk
- bundles generated and signed by google play on-the-fly out-of smaller apks uploaded by the publisher
This PR is a step towards and necessary for rebuilding a single-apk out of a splitted-apk that was bundled / generated by Google Play.
Fixes the single apk build as per issue #23