Updating to ReaderSDK 1.7.1 Android

Questions
1

Hi,
I am attempting to upgrade to ReaderSDK 1.7.1 but I am finding that it is unable to build with my application due to some errors.
I have 2 red exclamation marks on
app:mergeDebugNativeLibs
One or more issues found when checking AAR metadata values.

When I check the merged manifest I see the following errors:

Warning Activity#com.squareup.ui.PaymentActivity was tagged at Android Manifest.xml:179 to remove other declarations but no other declaration present xxxxxxxx.main manifest (this file), line 178

Warning activity#com.squareup.ui.main.MainActivity was tagged at AndroidManifest.xml:182 to remove other declarations but no other declaration present xxxxxxxxxx.main manifest (this file), line 181

The previous ReaderSDK 1.5.1 built with my application with no problems. I don’t believe I have changed my application other than to upgrade the gradle build files.

I am using the latest Android Studio Dolphin 2021.3.1 Patch 1

I have followed the Square guidelines

build gradle project
dependencies {
classpath ‘com.android.tools.build:gradle:7.0.4’

build gradle app

target Sdk Version 31
minSdkVersion 24

android {
compileSdkVersion 31
buildToolsVersion “30.0.3”

packagingOptions {
doNotStrip “//libregister.so”
}

gradle-wrapper.properties
distributionUrl=https://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-7.4.2-bin.zip

Any help to resolve these errors would be appreciated.

2

When you updated did you either upgrade the targetSdk to 31, or suppress the new permissions in AndroidManifest.xml. If you do neither, and build at targetSdk=30 or less but with the new permissions because in RSDK 1.7.1, you will get compile-time errors referencing BLUETOOTH_SCAN and/or BLUETOOTH_CONNECT. :slightly_smiling_face:

3

Yes. I was aware of this. As I mentioned I set the build grade file to TargetSDK version 31 and CompileSDK to version 31. And the errors I received do not seem to relate to Bluetooth.

4

Hi Brian,

Any help to resolve these errors would be appreciated.

5

So I finally managed to get the latest ReaderSDK 1.7.1 version to build with my application. Of course everyone’s application is different. But I found it is best not to allow Android Studio to update all your dependencies. if you already have a working version better to upgrade dependencies only if necessary.

I was getting an error message that merge:DebugNativeLibs was failing and that there were more than one version of a number of libraries. So I managed to resolve these errors by adding the following to the android build.gradle file.
packagingOptions {
doNotStrip “//libregister.so”
pickFirst ‘lib/arm64-v8a/libbugsnag-root-detection.so’
pickFirst ‘lib/armeabi-v7a/libbugsnag-root-detection.so’
pickFirst ‘lib/x86/libbugsnag-root-detection.so’
pickFirst ‘lib/x86_64/libbugsnag-root-detection.so’
}

6

Glad to hear you figured it out. :slightly_smiling_face: