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Unity SDk is forcing the android.hardware.camera permission to be required in AndroidManifest

Hi,

 

I've been using Vuforia for a while, but since a couple of updates back the SDK is forcing the android.hardware.camera permission to be required in the AndroidManifest:

<uses-feature android:name="android.hardware.camera" android:required="true"/>

 

This previously used to set the android:required permission to false, thus making it optional. When it's true, the Google Play Store will not distribute it to some devices (e.g Chromebooks or devices without a rear-facing camera).

 

As I only use Vuforia for a small part of my app and wish to have the rest of the app available on Chromebooks still, I really need to get this back to an optional permission.

 

Any ideas on how I can achieve this?