Modifying the Manifest

Now that we have our starter project, we need to start making changes, as we have a lot of work to do.

In this tutorial, we will start with the Android manifest, one of the core files in an app. Here, we will make a few changes, just to help get you familiar with editing this file. We will be returning to this file — and other core files, like Gradle build files — many times over the course of the rest of the book.

This is a continuation of the work we did in the previous tutorial. The book’s GitLab repository contains the results of the previous tutorial as well as the results of completing the work in this tutorial.

You can learn more about the contents of the manifest in the "Inspecting Your Manifest" chapter of Elements of Android Jetpack!

Some Notes About Relative Paths

In these tutorials, you will see references to relative paths, like AndroidManifest.xml, res/layout/, and so on.

You should interpret these paths as being relative to the app/src/main/ directory within the project, except as otherwise noted. So, for example, Step #1 below will ask you to open AndroidManifest.xml — that file can be found in app/src/main/AndroidManifest.xml from the project root.