Question Problem movind from res/ to .androidlabrary

Hi,

I am updating some code from 2019 to 2021 and am getting the OBSOLETE message when trying to build with an Android/res folder.

The res folder looked like:-
res/
xml/
filepaths.xml

and filepaths.xml contains

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

<paths xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">

    <external-path name="external_files" path="." />

</paths>

I have now removed res/ added filepaths.androidlib which contains:-
AndroidManifest.xml
project.properties
res/

The res folder contains the same files as the old res folder.

AndroidManifest.xml contains:-

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools" package="com.westcoat.Fitbag" android:versionCode="1" android:versionName="1.0">

  <application>

    <activity android:name="filepaths" android:hardwareAccelerated="true" />

  </application>

</manifest>

and project.properties contains:-

# Project target.

target=android-32

android.library=true

This builds without error but crashes at startup with
java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to get provider androidx.core.content.FileProvider: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: Didn't find class "androidx.core.content.FileProvider" on path: DexPathList[[zip file

so it looks like the filepaths.xml isn't being added as it used to be.

Can anybody help as I've googled for a couple of days and can't find an answer.


Thanks.
John

 

Copied that but having lots of errors referencing AndroidManifest.xml.

 

Is there more info on making this an aar or .androidlib out of this? I've spent another day and still no luck.

 

The copy in OnPostGenerateGradleAndroidProject has created res/xml/file_paths.xml in Library\Bee\Android\Prj\IL2CPP\Gradle\unityLibrary.

 

Thanks for this, I was getting confused and still am. I only tried the copy instead of .androidlib on the advice of Tomas1856, I woould really like this to work wirh .androidlib. Unfortuantely, I inherited this project and don't really understand Android that well. Everything was working well upgrading the project until Unity2021.
The docs and replies on google seem to suggest that all you need to do is more res from plugins/Android into something.androidlib and that should work. I also found that I would need project.properties and AndroidManifest.xml to make it work. If you take a look at the beginning of this stream, you can see what I ended up with that doesn't work.
Can you see where I have gone wrong?

 

It turned out there was nothing wrong with my .androidlib!
Somewhere in the upgrade from 2020 to 2021 the gradle template got corrupted. copying that over to 2021 fixed the problem.