Capacitor with third-party AndroidX library

[Nasicus]

Roughly said I have the following project:

• Out of the box app with create-react-app & typescript (npx create-react-app my-app --typescript)
• Added capacitor (npm install --save @capacitor/core @capacitor/cli)
• Initialized capacitor (npx cap init)
• Added Android (npx cap add android)
• Created a custom plugin (npx @capacitor/cli plugin:generate)
• referenced this plugin in my package.json of the react app ("capsal-msal-plugin": "file:capsal-msal-plugin")
• added the third-party library which uses androidx to the build.gradle file of my plugin, i.e.

dependencies {
   implementation 'com.microsoft.identity.client:msal:1.0.+'
}

Now when I try to build Android I get the following error:

Manifest merger failed : Attribute application@appComponentFactory value=(android.support.v4.app.CoreComponentFactory) from [com.android.support:support-compat:28.0.0] AndroidManifest.xml:22:18-91
	is also present at [androidx.core:core:1.0.1] AndroidManifest.xml:22:18-86 value=(androidx.core.app.CoreComponentFactory).
	Suggestion: add 'tools:replace="android:appComponentFactory"' to <application> element at AndroidManifest.xml:5:5-43:19 to override.

If you google this you quickly find, that his is an AndroidX issue:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/51793345/android-material-and-appcompat-manifest-merger-failed

I tried various things (bascially all are from the SO thread above):

• Using Android Studio with the command Refactor => Migrate To Android X
• enable jetifier in the gradle.properties

None of it worked, it just resulted in different errors.

So my question:
Did anyone ever manage to add a third-party library which uses AndroidX? If so can you please tell me how this can be achieved?

I pushed my sample project to this repository:
https://github.com/Nasicus/capsal

[jcesarmobile]

Android X can’t be used just for one dependency, it has to be used for al dependencies in all plugins and modules, including Capacitor itself, which doesn’t support it yet.

#1937

[Nasicus]

@jcesarmobile I know it doesn't work yet. I hoped there is a workaround for it. Especially because I read something in #1937 (comment)

[priyankpat]

I have a PR #2045 submitted got AndroidX support. Maybe try it as a workaround?

[Nasicus]

Thanks @PR1YANKPAT3L is there an easy was of how to use your version? do I need to build it locally and stuff?

[priyankpat]

I simply referenced the repository locally. This is my current setup.

-- projects
---- capacitor (forked repo)
---- main-project (current project)

I ran from main-project the following: npm i ../capacitor/android --save. Once installed, you can run: npx cap sync.

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