Emulator : how to Allow Application to access device location

[SK]

While running test on emulator, I always get a pop up to allow application to access device location. How can that be allowed by default whenever the test starts?

[Luis Ramirez]

If you're referring to the runtime permission dialog the system shows when you need a permission when targeting API 23 +, you can grant your app the requested permission through adb before your test runs:

https://developer.android.com/training/permissions/best-practices.html#testing

What we did is write a simple gradle task that runs the grant permission call on the command line after the install task completes.

On Fri, Aug 5, 2016 at 2:05 PM SK <sana...@gmail.com> wrote:

While running test on emulator, I always get a pop up to allow application to access device location. How can that be allowed by default whenever the test starts?

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[Drew Hannay]

You can also pass the -g flag to the adb install command to grant all runtime permissions to the app at install time, which might be a little simpler.

On Saturday, August 6, 2016 at 3:33:41 PM UTC-7, Luis Ramirez wrote:

If you're referring to the runtime permission dialog the system shows when you need a permission when targeting API 23 +, you can grant your app the requested permission through adb before your test runs:

https://developer.android.com/training/permissions/best-practices.html#testing

What we did is write a simple gradle task that runs the grant permission call on the command line after the install task completes.

On Fri, Aug 5, 2016 at 2:05 PM SK <sana...@gmail.com> wrote:

While running test on emulator, I always get a pop up to allow application to access device location. How can that be allowed by default whenever the test starts?

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[Venkata Sesha Giridhar Kari]

You can also use the following in before test method:

getInstrumentation().getUiAutomation().executeShellCommand(

                    "pm grant" + getTargetContext().getPackageName() + "android.permission.ACCESS_COARSE_LOCATION");

Here is an example: https://github.com/googlesamples/android-testing/blob/ed62c450e43f859333b3113d44dd59f75971b529/ui/espresso/IntentsBasicSample/app/src/androidTest/java/com/example/android/testing/espresso/BasicSample/DialerActivityTest.java#L94