Ar-vos (https://ar-vos.com), my Unity - ARCore - based app does not start on Android-12 anymore after solving the android:exported="true" issue.
In particular I want it to work with a version of Unity 2018, I tried with all versions up to U 2018.4.36, but found no solution. A version based on U 2019.4.35 works, but in this version all the prefabs created by my clients look very bad, thus I cannot deploy that version either. :-(
I am really desperate trying to fix this, I have clients that need an updated version which I cannot deploy to the PlayStore at the moment.
If anybody out there has an Unity 2018 - ARCore - based App and was able to create a version for Android Api level >= 31, and has successfully deployed that version to the PlayStore, I would like to talk. Although AR-vos is an open source project, it has also a commercial side, i.e. I am willing to pay for help.
My manifest looks like this
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
package="com.arpoise.ARvos"
android:installLocation="auto"
android:targetSandboxVersion="2"
android:versionCode="20220213"
android:versionName="1.12" >
<uses-sdk
android:minSdkVersion="24"
android:targetSdkVersion="32" />
<supports-screens
android:anyDensity="true"
android:largeScreens="true"
android:normalScreens="true"
android:smallScreens="true"
android:xlargeScreens="true" />
<uses-feature android:glEsVersion="0x00020000" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.CAMERA" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION" />
<uses-feature
android:name="android.hardware.location.gps"
android:required="false" />
<uses-feature
android:name="android.hardware.location"
android:required="false" />
<uses-feature
android:name="android.hardware.touchscreen"
android:required="false" />
<uses-feature
android:name="android.hardware.touchscreen.multitouch"
android:required="false" />
<uses-feature
android:name="android.hardware.touchscreen.multitouch.distinct"
android:required="false" />
<queries>
<package android:name="com.google.ar.core" />
</queries>
<uses-feature
android:name="android.hardware.camera.ar"
android:required="true" />
<application
android:extractNativeLibs="false"
android:icon="@mipmap/app_icon"
android:label="@string/app_name"
android:theme="@style/UnityThemeSelector" >
<activity
android:name="com.unity3d.player.UnityPlayerActivity"
android:configChanges="mcc|mnc|locale|touchscreen|keyboard|keyboardHidden|navigation|orientation|screenLayout|uiMode|screenSize|smallestScreenSize|fontScale|layoutDirection|density"
android:exported="true"
android:hardwareAccelerated="false"
android:label="@string/app_name"
android:launchMode="singleTask"
android:screenOrientation="fullSensor" >
<intent-filter>
<action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />
<category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
</intent-filter>
<meta-data
android:name="unityplayer.UnityActivity"
android:value="true" />
</activity>
<meta-data
android:name="unity.tango-enable"
android:value="True" />
<meta-data
android:name="unityplayer.SkipPermissionsDialog"
android:value="true" />
<meta-data
android:name="unity.build-id"
android:value="e50bd308-bd13-4431-83b0-92ad104e18cd" />
<meta-data
android:name="unity.splash-mode"
android:value="0" />
<meta-data
android:name="unity.splash-enable"
android:value="True" />
<!-- The minimal version code of ARCore APK required for an app using this SDK. -->
<meta-data
android:name="com.google.ar.core.min_apk_version"
android:value="210910000" /> <!-- This activity is critical for installing ARCore when it is not already present. -->
<activity
android:name="com.google.ar.core.InstallActivity"
android:configChanges="keyboardHidden|orientation|screenSize"
android:excludeFromRecents="true"
android:exported="false"
android:launchMode="singleTop"
android:theme="@android:style/Theme.Material.Light.Dialog.Alert" />
<meta-data
android:name="com.google.ar.core"
android:value="required" />
</application>
</manifest>
On my Android-12 devices this displays the Unity splash screen and then turns black. On older Android devices it works fine.
If I change the target version to android:targetSdkVersion="30" the app installs and works fine on my Android-12 AND older devices.
But I cannot release an app with android:targetSdkVersion="30" to the Play-Store anymore.
There must be something more than just setting android:exported="true" for Unity 2018 based apps on Android-12, but I cannot find a solution.
I tried to find ways to make the intent work again, but could not find a solution.
If somebody wants to have a look at it, I uploaded the apk and the entire Unity project to https://arpoise.com/transfer/, I used Unity 2018.4.23 for the project.
