AndroidManifest.xml resets on each run

Capacitor
1

The topic is for Capacitor 3, Ionic 6, Vue 3

Each time I start my app locally, the AndroidManifest.xml is reset quite aggressively. I.e. lots of the XML is removed, formatted, etc. Is there a way I can instruct capacitor to leave the manifest as-is?

I run the app this way: ionic capacitor run android -l --external

The AndroidManifest.xml change I have to redo each time is to allow android:usesCleartextTraffic so I can debug, like this:

    <application
        android:usesCleartextTraffic="true"

dependencies:

    "@capacitor/android": "3.3.3",
    "@capacitor/app": "1.0.7",
    "@capacitor/core": "3.3.3",
    "@ionic/vue": "^6.0.0",

devDependencies:

    "@capacitor/cli": "3.3.3",
    "@vue/cli-service": "~5.0.0-rc.1",
2

Do you have AndroidManifest.xml.orig file in the same directory?

3

Yes, the original manifest becomes AndroidManifest.xml.orig in the same directory. What does that signify? Is there a way to prevent or modify this behavior?

4

I am also not having idea of that. But a work around is to copy AndroidManifest.xml.orig to AndroidManifest.xml and rebuild the app.

5

You should be able to set server.cleartext to true in the Capacitor config and that will properly modify your AndroidManifest.xml: Capacitor - build cross platform apps with the web

6

@codeluggage have you figured this out? I’m seeing this too.