The Application Element

There can be many child elements of the root <manifest> element. Over the course of this book, we will see ones like <uses-permission> that appear in these manifests.

However, the most important child element by far is <application>. This describes the app that is using this manifest.

In a significant Android app, most of what goes in the manifest consists of child elements of <application>, such as the <activity> element. Beyond that, the <application> element:

We will explore many of these attributes as we proceed in this book.


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