Element uses-permission#android.permission.CAMERA duplicated with element declared at AndroidManifest.xml

Question

The question title is the error I receive while deploying my Ionic app for Android. I think (but am not sure) this emanates because I use both the barcodeScanner and Camera plugins in my app, which both require the Camera permission. Is there something I should be doing when using two plugins which require the same permission? Also, is it adviseable to edit the AndroidManifest file, and if yes, how exactly should I do it?

Edit:

Actually, the problem wasn't because I used the barcodeScanner and Camera plugins in my app. It was caused by the existence of barcodeScanner and qrScanner among my plugins (even though I used just barcodeScanner in my app. Even though the accepted answer eliminated the error, I find it worthwhile pointing out that removing one of these plugins did as well:

cordova plugin remove cordova-plugin-qrscanner

Answer 1

As it is very clear from the Error message that two elements i.e. plugins are using same permission. To resolve such issue you can do the following:

• Comment out/remove the line of uses-permission and uses-feature in ...\plugins\phonegap-plugin-barcodescanner\plugin.xml

  <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.CAMERA"/>
  <uses-feature android:name="android.hardware.camera">
  

• rm platform android

• add platform android

• ionic cordova run android

No need to touch AndroidManifest.xml file and also it is not advisable.

Hope this will help.