Adding push notification icons/configs to config.xml crashes app

[rolinger]

I followed all the directions for adding the push notification icons to the appropriate folders and the necessary configs. After adding it all, and doing a cordova run android the app starts launch and then immediately crashes. When it crashes, the last command prompt never returns - have to <ctrl>-C out of the batch.

Now I am trying to go through my project to find all the configs that were added to remove them and see which one is causing the issue.

The push notification icons I added to all the drawable folders (notification_icon.png) are all color icons - just mini versions (properly sized) of my actual app icon. Could an incorrectly formatted notification_icon.png cause something like this?

My suspicion is it has to do with the meta-data config.xml edits. Where does <meta-data android:name="com.google.firebase.messaging.default_notification_icon" android:resource="@drawable/notification_icon" /> get edited/copied to? I have looked in the /platforms/android/app/src/main/AndroidManifest.xml file and its not in there. I removed it from the main config.xml file but its still crashing.

[rolinger]

I had to delete all icon references from config.xml, remove/add android platform and rebuild. To get it app to work again. Now trying to figure out exactly what specifically is breaking it.

1. Just added drawable-XYpi folders and icons to /projects/resources/android/ - did not add any icon <resource-file ...> configs to config.xml - recompiled and still worked.
2. Then added all the <resource-file ...> lines to the config.xml, recompiled and still worked.
3. Then added the following to the config.xml file (under android), recompiled and then the app crashes again.

        <config-file parent="application" target="AndroidManifest.xml">
            <meta-data android:name="com.google.firebase.messaging.default_notification_icon" android:resource="@drawable/notification_icon" />
        </config-file>

What could be causing this?

[rolinger]

Found the issue, the <config-file ..> parent path is wrong in the documentation.

<config-file parent="application" target="AndroidManifest.xml">

Should be:

<config-file parent="/manifest/application" target="AndroidManifest.xml">

The docs should be updated.

[dpa99c]

Resolved by #174

[50l3r]

I try to follow the #174 instructions but I view a default blank icon:

I have this config:

<edit-config file="app/src/main/AndroidManifest.xml" mode="merge" target="/manifest/application" xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
    <application android:networkSecurityConfig="@xml/network_security_config" />
    <application android:layout_width="match_parent" />
    <application android:layout_height="match_parent" />
</edit-config>
<config-file mode="merge" parent="/*" target="AndroidManifest.xml" xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
    <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.FOREGROUND_SERVICE" />
    <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE" />
</config-file>
<config-file parent="/manifest/application" target="AndroidManifest.xml" xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
    <meta-data android:name="com.google.firebase.messaging.default_notification_icon" android:resource="@drawable/notification_icon" />
</config-file>
<icon background="resources/android/icon/ldpi-background.png" density="ldpi" foreground="resources/android/icon/ldpi-foreground.png" src="resources/android/icon/drawable-ldpi-icon.png" />
<icon background="resources/android/icon/mdpi-background.png" density="mdpi" foreground="resources/android/icon/mdpi-foreground.png" src="resources/android/icon/drawable-mdpi-icon.png" />
<icon background="resources/android/icon/hdpi-background.png" density="hdpi" foreground="resources/android/icon/hdpi-foreground.png" src="resources/android/icon/drawable-hdpi-icon.png" />
<icon background="resources/android/icon/xhdpi-background.png" density="xhdpi" foreground="resources/android/icon/xhdpi-foreground.png" src="resources/android/icon/drawable-xhdpi-icon.png" />
<icon background="resources/android/icon/xxhdpi-background.png" density="xxhdpi" foreground="resources/android/icon/xxhdpi-foreground.png" src="resources/android/icon/drawable-xxhdpi-icon.png" />
<icon background="resources/android/icon/xxxhdpi-background.png" density="xxxhdpi" foreground="resources/android/icon/xxxhdpi-foreground.png" src="resources/android/icon/drawable-xxxhdpi-icon.png" />
<resource-file src="resources/android/icon/drawable-mdpi-icon.png" target="app/src/main/res/drawable-mdpi/notification_icon.png" />
<resource-file src="resources/android/icon/drawable-hdpi-icon.png" target="app/src/main/res/drawable-hdpi/notification_icon.png" />
<resource-file src="resources/android/icon/drawable-xhdpi-icon.png" target="app/src/main/res/drawable-xhdpi/notification_icon.png" />
<resource-file src="resources/android/icon/drawable-xxhdpi-icon.png" target="app/src/main/res/drawable-xxhdpi/notification_icon.png" />
<resource-file src="resources/android/icon/drawable-xxxhdpi-icon.png" target="app/src/main/res/drawable-xxxhdpi/notification_icon.png" />    

[rolinger]

@50l3r - make certain your paths to all the files are correct. I had the same issue and my config file had /res/android.... and should have been resources/android/.... - and it was causing my app to crash too. Double check your other config paths too.

[50l3r]

My resource-file exists:

<resource-file src="resources/android/icon/drawable-mdpi-icon.png" target="app/src/main/res/drawable-mdpi/notification_icon.png" />
<resource-file src="resources/android/icon/drawable-hdpi-icon.png" target="app/src/main/res/drawable-hdpi/notification_icon.png" />
<resource-file src="resources/android/icon/drawable-xhdpi-icon.png" target="app/src/main/res/drawable-xhdpi/notification_icon.png" />
<resource-file src="resources/android/icon/drawable-xxhdpi-icon.png" target="app/src/main/res/drawable-xxhdpi/notification_icon.png" />
<resource-file src="resources/android/icon/drawable-xxxhdpi-icon.png" target="app/src/main/res/drawable-xxxhdpi/notification_icon.png" />