Overwrite manifest.xml - android

Hi stack overflow community
I am developing an app for android. There I have to programm that when the backbutton is pressed, the app is send to the background.
I have done this with navigator.app.exitApp(). But I have found out that I get a second instance of the app when I start it new after pressed backbutton.
So I searched and now I want to overwrite the manifest.xml (android:launchMode="singleTask" instead of singleTop. But everytime when I enter cordova run android to put the app on my phone, the manifest.xml will be overwritten (again singleTop instead of the singleTask which I want.
How I can resolve this overwriting? Is it possible to resolve?
I've heard it is/was a bug of cordova? Have they corrected it?
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-4911
Ok. What I did so far?
With Notepadd++ I opened the manifest.xml and overwrite the android:launchMode. Then I saved the file and opened the CLI in which I build android or run android.
But everytime these commands have overwritten the manifest.xml file.
Is there another way to modify the file manifest.xml without overwriting?
Thanks for your help.

Instead of using navigator.app.exitApp() you can use moveTaskToBack() but I'm not sure if it exists in cordova.
Also I think you set the wrong parameters because you have to set launchMode instead of label.
android:label="Name of the current activity"
android:launchMode="singleTop"
Hope it helps

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