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Android requires us to specify these tags for foreground services: https://developer.android.com/about/versions/14/changes/fgs-types-required

If we use WorkManager, as suggested, then we have to specify what FGS type we are using: https://developer.android.com/develop/background-work/background-tasks/persistent/how-to/long-running#declare-foreground-service-types-manifest

If we use different FGS types in our application, either from different libraries we control, or from SDKs that we do not, then we want the final declaration to be merged.

Currently this isn't possible as if we have 2 defined foregroundServiceType for 1 service (say the work manager service), we get the following error:

Attribute service#com.example.lib3.MyService@foregroundServiceType value=(dataSync) from [:lib1] AndroidManifest.xml:11:13-53
is also present at [:lib2] AndroidManifest.xml:11:13-60 value=(remoteMessaging).
Suggestion: add 'tools:replace="android:foregroundServiceType"' to <service> element at AndroidManifest.xml to override.

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We would have to use tools:replace at the application level, and that does work, but then if the upstream projects or SDKs change, add, or remove a foregroundServiceType, that will silently fail as we have no way of knowing it didn't merge.