Other Is possible to force the use of HTTPS?

[beachner]

I'm currently trying to create a wrapper for a mapping sdk from Mapfactor and I'm having trouble with the activation of the library.
When I'm running the activation code through my wrapper in B4A I get an error saying that Cleartext HTTP traffic to mapfactor.com not permitted. This message does not appear when I use the library in a project created with Android Studio.

This is the code in the wrapper library that I'm calling from B4A.

public void ActivateDevice(BA ba){
        this.ba = ba;
      
        ActivationListener listener = new ActivationListener() {

            @Override
            public void onActivationFinished(ActivationResult activationResult) {
                boolean succeeded = activationResult == MpfcEngine.ActivationResult.SUCCEEDED || activationResult == MpfcEngine.ActivationResult.ALREADY_ACTIVATED;
                ba.raiseEventFromUI(this, "onActivationResult".toLowerCase(BA.cul)+"_fire", succeeded);
                Log.d("MpfcEngine", "Activationresult is " + succeeded);
              
            }
          
        };
      
        MpfcEngine.getInstance().activateDevice("<Some API-key>", listener);
    }

I instatiates the wrapper in Activity_Create

Sub Activity_Create(FirstTime As Boolean)
    Dim ctxt As JavaObject
    ctxt.InitializeContext
    Dim engine As JavaObject
    engine.InitializeNewInstance("com.company.mapfactorwrapper.MpfcEngineWrapper",Null)
    mmpfcEngine = engine
    Dim path = rp.GetAllSafeDirsExternal("")(0) As String
    mmpfcEngine.InitTomTom(ctxt,path,mmpfcEngine.ENGLISH_US)

    Activity.LoadLayout("Layout") 
End Sub

and I call the activation logic from a event callback when the library failes to initiate

Sub onEngineInitFinished_Fire(result As Int)
    xui.MsgboxAsync(result,"onEngineInitFinished")
    If result = mmpfcEngine.SUCCESS Then
        Private MapView1 As MapView
      
        Panel1.AddView(MapView1,0,0,Panel1.Width,Panel1.Height)
    Else
        mmpfcEngine.ActivateDevice()
    End If
End Sub

the mmpfcEngine variable is declared in Process_Globals

Sub Process_Globals
    'These global variables will be declared once when the application starts.
    'These variables can be accessed from all modules.
    Private xui As XUI
    Public mmpfcEngine As MpfcEngineWrapper
    Public rp As RuntimePermissions
End Sub

I've tried adding

SetApplicationAttribute(android:usesCleartextTraffic, "false")

to the manifest without effect

Any help you could give me would be appreciated.

Edit: Never mind,
SetApplicationAttribute(android:usesCleartextTraffic, "false")
should of courde been set to true. Don't no why I didn't have to add it to the Android Studio project. Sorry.

 

[MarcoRome]

You can add in manifest this:

CreateResourceFromFile(Macro, Core.NetworkClearText)

or

SetApplicationAttribute(android:usesCleartextTraffic, "true")

they are the same thing

 

[beachner]

Thank you, the problem was that for some reason I got it in my head that it was the licencing server for map sdk that was throwing this error and not the Android runtime.
As soon as I added

SetApplicationAttribute(android:usesCleartextTraffic, "true")

that bit worked fine. Could have been more clear about that in my edit. Sorry about that but thanks again for your help

 

[DonManfred]

Allowing the use of http is not the same as forcing to use https!

In fact with

android:usesCleartextTraffic, "true"

you are explicitely allowing http-use.

You should not use that setting and REALLY use only https.

 

[beachner]

Allowing the use of http is not the same as forcing to use https!

Yes, that is true. And a good point. But at the moment I'm just trying to get it to work and I don't know what's on the other end of the pipe. Does the licensing server support HTTPS? If I can get the sdk to work at all in this framework I would be very happy. Then I can look into that bit further down the line, but at the moment I would be happy if I just could get it to work at all.