Background permission only for newer devices

Is there a way to add Background and Communication permissions only to newer devices?

I don't have enough memory left to add it for all devices, but for newer devices I'd like to add features that need Communication, and thus because it's a datafield also Background. But because there's only 1 manifest for the whole project if I add Background permission then the compiler wants me to add all the Background related code.

0 jim_m_58 over 2 years ago

Just setting those permissions doesn't add anything to the app size. The thing that does is adding code that uses those things.

I've never found a way to have different permissions based on the target device, but you shouldn't need that.

0 flocsy🤠 over 2 years ago in reply to jim_m_58

Unfortunately that doesn't seem to be possible. Once I add Background permission I have no choice but to make MyApp annotated with (:background), and also many of it's public methods... and I end up with lots of code (even if it's boilerplate empty methods, classes) that add up. Also once you have these it will start the background app no matter what. So it adds lots of code.

0 jim_m_58 over 2 years ago in reply to flocsy🤠

If you want to have different permissions for different targets, you'll need separate apps.

0 andyj713 over 2 years ago in reply to jim_m_58

Maybe the custom decorations described in the docs under barrels? I'd like to be able to separate by API level for similar reasons. Maintaining multiple code bases doesn't sound like fun. Or does the XML not allow this kind of breakdown?

0 flocsy🤠 over 2 years ago in reply to andyj713

You mean the annotations?
It works similar to excludeAnnotations. You can include only a specific part of the barrel to save space, but it won't change the problem with the Background permission IMHO, 'cause both my app and the barrel can have only 1 manifest file, so it either has or doesn't have the Background permission. If it has, then all devices will need to behave accordingly.