AndroidManifest hell

[Oaf]

Well it seems Unreal's support for processing manifests is as bad as Unity's....

Trying to upload a build, get the following error:

It seems you can only ADD permissions via UE5 project settings, so I do that to produce the following:

The offending permissions should be removed, but it seems they're not. What's going on?

Thanks!

[Oaf · Accepted solution]

Fixed it. Removed all my 'remove' permission lines, and created a file called AndroidSanitizePermissions_UPL.xml in Intermediate/Source:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<root xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
<androidManifestUpdates>
<removePermission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE" />
<removePermission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_WIFI_STATE" />
<removePermission android:name="android.permission.READ_PHONE_STATE" />
<removePermission android:name="com.android.vending.CHECK_LICENSE" />
<removePermission android:name="android.permission.GET_ACCOUNTS" />
<removePermission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_MEDIA_LOCATION" />
<removePermission android:name="android.permission.READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE" />
</androidManifestUpdates>
</root>

...then amended [MyProject].Build.cs in the same folder to include the lines:

var manifest_file = Path.Combine(ModuleDirectory, "AndroidSanitizePermissions_UPL.xml");
AdditionalPropertiesForReceipt.Add(new ReceiptProperty("AndroidPlugin", manifest_file));


...and all is good!