Android App: How to set usesCleartextTraffic = false

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Please provide the following:

  1. SDK Version: 40
  2. Platforms(Android/iOS/web/all): Android
  3. app.json

It seems that usesCleartextTraffic is set to true by default and that caused my App could not pass the client’s pentest (security tester). Is there a way to set usesCleartextTraffic = false? I did try in “android/app/src/main/AndroidManifest.xml” but it is ignored when Expo building.

Also tried to put usesCleartextTraffic to app.json but got error.

Please help!

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Hey @tm01xx, can you let me know what type of project you are working with and how you are building your binary?

If it’s a Managed project, this will be trickier but doable by leveraging expo config plugins and the expo prebuild command. See here.

Cheers,
Adam

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Hi,

Thanks for replying. My project is bared one. I build it by using “expo eject” then “expo build:android” command.

I will try your suggestion and let you know if it works. Thanks again!

Best regards,

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