While writing Android manifest some configuration I must put inside “application” section (eg. list of activities) and some outside it (eg. uses-sdk). Why? Is there any general rule what goes inside “application” section and what outside? Or was it pure random arbitrary decision by Android creators?
While writing Android manifest some configuration I must put inside application section (eg. list
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Not really a programming question. If you follow commit history of AOSP you might get an answer. Or track down Andy Rubin and ask him 🙂
With the current layout, you could theoretically have multiple applications inside the same APK. Stuff that is common to all applications will got at the highest level (
uses-sdk, etc.), everything else inside the corresponding<application>.