[Feature]: add tools to capactor-cordova-android-plugins AndroidManifest.xml

[mg]

Description

Add xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools" to manifest

Platforms

• iOS
• Android
• Web

Request or proposed solution

Hi

We are testing the migration of our Cordova app over to Capacitor, and are having a issue with a Cordova plugin we are dependent on that has no substitute in the Capacitor ecosystem.

The AndroidManifest.xml that is generated by capacitor-cli is invalid because the plugin comes with the following tag:

And since the AndroidManifest.xml manifest tag does not have the attribute xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools", gradle fails when it attempts to merge the file with the main AndroidManifest.xml file. And since this file is generated on every build we can't easily fix this.

Cheers,
mg

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Thanks! Ionitron 💙

[mg]

I will close this, I managed to patch it on my side with capacitor after sync hook, I will take it up with the vendor to provide a better solution.

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