vbansal-bb opened a new issue, #1913:
URL: https://github.com/apache/cordova-android/issues/1913
# Bug Report
## Problem
### What is expected to happen?
cordova run android should install and launch the app successfully when the
main activity in AndroidManifest.xml uses a fully qualified class name that is
outside the app's package namespace (e.g., com.other.package.MainActivity
instead of .MainActivity).
### What does actually happen?
The app installs successfully but the launch fails with:
Error type 3
Error: Activity class
{com.example.myapp/com.example.myapp.com.other.package.MainActivity} does not
exist.
The activity name is incorrectly resolved because lib/target.js always uses
the /. (relative) notation when constructing the launch intent component name:
const launchName = pkgName + '/.' + manifest.getActivity().getName();
For a fully qualified activity name like com.other.package.MainActivity,
this produces com.example.myapp/.com.other.package.MainActivity, which Android
resolves as com.example.myapp.com.other.package.MainActivity — a class that
does not exist.
## Information
<!-- Include all relevant information that might help understand and
reproduce the problem -->
This issue affects any Cordova plugin that overrides the main activity with
a fully qualified class name via edit-config in plugin.xml. For example:
<edit-config file="app/src/main/AndroidManifest.xml"
target="/manifest/application/activity" mode="merge">
<activity android:name="com.other.package.MainActivity"/>
</edit-config>
The resulting AndroidManifest.xml contains:
<activity android:name="com.other.package.MainActivity" ...>
The fix is straightforward — check if the activity name is already fully
qualified and use / instead of /.:
const activityName = manifest.getActivity().getName();
const launchName = activityName.includes('.')
? pkgName + '/' + activityName
: pkgName + '/.' + activityName;
This preserves existing behavior for relative names (.MainActivity) while
correctly handling fully qualified names.
### Command or Code
<!-- What command or code is needed to reproduce the problem? -->
cordova create myapp com.example.myapp MyApp
cd myapp
cordova platform add android
# Add a plugin that overrides the activity with a fully qualified name, or
manually
# edit platforms/android/app/src/main/AndroidManifest.xml to set:
# android:name="com.other.package.MainActivity"
cordova run android
# Result: INSTALL SUCCESS followed by launch failure
### Environment, Platform, Device
<!-- In what environment, on what platform or on which device are you
experiencing the issue? -->
macOS
Android emulator and physical devices
Issue is in lib/target.js — platform and device independent
### Version information
<!--
What are relevant versions you are using?
For example:
Cordova: Cordova CLI, Cordova Platforms, Cordova Plugins
Other Frameworks: Ionic Framework and CLI version
Operating System, Android Studio, Xcode etc.
-->
Cordova CLI: 13.0.0
cordova-android: 13.0.0, 14.0.1, 15.0.0 (all affected — same code at line
133 of lib/target.js)
Node.js: >= 20.7.0
## Checklist
<!-- Please check the boxes by putting an x in the [ ] like so: [x] -->
- [x] I searched for existing GitHub issues
- [x] I updated all Cordova tooling to most recent version
- [x] I included all the necessary information above
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