[Interest] AndroidManifest always requires android.permission.CAMERA

[Bruno Coudoin]

Hi,

After publishing my application in the play store I am not seing my 
application on Nexus 7 first gen. Looking at some forums I found that 
since this model has no back camera and only a front one it is excluded 
when the manifest requires one with "android.permission.CAMERA".

I tried to add the line '<uses-feature android:required="false" 
android:name="android.hardware.camera"/>' in my AndroidManifest.xml but 
this file is re-generated by the build system and anyway the line 
'<uses-feature android:name="android.hardware.camera" />' is added to 
the AndroidManifest.

In Google's documentation they suggest [1] to use instead 
'android.hardware.camera.any' which means 'The application uses at least 
one camera facing in any direction. Use this in preference to 
android.hardware.camera if a back-facing camera is not required.'

Not sure is this is someting I can fix at our application level. is this 
is a know issue, should I file a bug?

Bruno.

[1] 
http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/manifest/uses-feature-element.html#permissions