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Manage the app manifest file

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Manage the app manifest file

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- [Instructor] Each Android Studio project has one or more modules. In a brand-new application, you'll typically have just one module representing the application itself. But in a complete production application, you might have one module for the app, and then other modules for various libraries that support the app. Each module has a manifest file. It's name is always the same, AndroidManifest.xml, and its stored in the manifests subdirectory. It's an XML file. Its root element is called manifest, and it declares at least one XML namespace that's used to identify various attributes in the rest of the file. The package attribute points to the base package for the application, and that will match the package where you've stored your root classes, such as MainActivity. Within the manifest, you'll find an application element. The application element has a number of useful attributes, such as allowBackup, labels, icons, and so on. But then there's a whole bunch of other important stuff…

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