How to override the screenOrientation property of an activity which is in library

Question

The title of this question is not exactly reflects my question I have trimmed it because it went too lengthy. Sorry for my bad English too.

Okay,

I am using a library which has an activity, I am using that activity in my app. The orientation of that activity is working fine in tablets i.e., both landscape and portrait but in phones it sticks to portrait mode.

When I have seen the Manifest file of that library its like

<activity
   android:name="DrawingActivity"
   android:configChanges="orientation|keyboardHidden|screenSize"
   android:finishOnTaskLaunch="true"
   android:screenOrientation="unspecified">

In the thread Android Orentation Changes. I came to know it should like android:screenOrientation="fullSensor" to work.

Now I am trying to override the screenOrientation property of the activity as said here

using tools:replace attribute but still its not working. Please can anybody help me to solve this issue.

This is how I'm trying to achieve.

<activity
   android:name="DrawingActivity"
   android:configChanges="orientation|keyboardHidden|screenSize"
   android:finishOnTaskLaunch="true"
   android:screenOrientation="fullSensor"
   tools:replace="android:screenOrientation">

If my question is not clear/too broad please let me know I'll edit my question.

Regards

Answer 1

You can use tools:node="merge", for example:

<activity android:name="DrawingActivity"
    android:screenOrientation="fullSensor"
    tools:node="merge">
</activity>

this node will be merged with the existing one and overrides any duplicates.

for more details about this refer to https://developer.android.com/studio/build/manifest-merge#node_markers