android manifestPlaceholders - how to use a boolean

Question

Manifest placeholder i have created looks like this:

manifestPlaceholders = [appDrawerName: "Staging",canExport:"true"]

and i am trying to use it to set the following exported property on an activity:

<activity android:name=".UI.product.ProductDetailsHostActivity"
           android:theme="@style/NoActionBarTheme"
           android:exported="${canExport}"/>

But i get the following error:

any ideas on how i can resolve this ? i tried using canExport:true without the quotes but same results.

btw, the first placeholder works fine.

Answer 1

You have to supply a boolean value instead of the string in manifestPlaceholders array.

change this

manifestPlaceholders = [appDrawerName: "Staging",canExport:"true"]

to

manifestPlaceholders = [appDrawerName: "Staging",canExport:true]

notice the boolean true instead of string "true"