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androidmanifest file in android

In this article, we will discuss about androidmanifest.xml file.

Purpose

This is an XML file that contains following information about android application

   1. Names of Java packages.

   2. What are the different activities in the project?

   3. Permissions required by other applications to interact with android application.

   4. Libraries linked to the application.

Path

This file is inside the manifests folder.

Picture showing AndroidManifest file in project explorer

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Setting the entry point of the application

To specify the entry point of the application, you have to specify the action inside intent filter. Here is the screen shot

Picture showing entry point in AndroidManifest file

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If we specify the action name as android.intent.action.MAIN then we are specifying the entry point of the application.

Second tag in the intent-filter is category tag that specify the activity as launcher activity. It means that when android application is launched, android operating system creates an instance of an activity which is specified as launcher activity.

Posted By -	Karan Gupta

Posted On -	Tuesday, September 24, 2019

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