Access photos permission

[Gareth Murfin]

Apologies if I have asked this before but I cannot find it - my app is apparently asking some people for permission to access photos and media, what calls in the code will cause this? I thought I had got rid of them all. The people on google play are lunatic asylum escapees, a permission drives them into a wild frenzy, why does the world think everyone is hacking them :)

[Shai Almog]

In the developer guide https://www.codenameone.com/manual/advanced-topics.html
We have a section where every Android permission is mapped to the methods/classes that trigger it. You can just search thru that. But make sure to check the build hints first to see that a cn1lib didn't inject a permission or something.

[Gareth Murfin]

Thanks i dont see anything, I have capturePhoto call in commented out code, could that be causing it somehow ?

On 30 November 2016 at 12:55, Shai Almog <shai....@gmail.com> wrote:

In the developer guide https://www.codenameone.com/manual/advanced-topics.html
We have a section where every Android permission is mapped to the methods/classes that trigger it. You can just search thru that. But make sure to check the build hints first to see that a cn1lib didn't inject a permission or something.

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[Gareth Murfin]

I think its something new from Android it says do you want "Raffler to access photos, media and fileso n your device?" - I am downloading an image of the winner, and storing it is this it do you think? See screenshot never seen this on any other device apart from 2, one from client one from mate.  

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/4194619/15240287_10154567724660568_1813990978_n.png

[Gareth Murfin]

ps this happens mid app - not at the start, im presuming it really is when i get an image to store.

[Shai Almog]

It's possibly related to the capture API.

[Gareth Murfin]

I actually did find a references to the capture api imported, i removed it but i am still getting this. 

Could this cause it ? surely this is internal, weird thing is I only see on 2 phones.

  String[] files = Storage.getInstance().listEntries(); 

        String whatHappened = deleteFiles(files);

or what about this ?  com.codename1.io.Util.downloadUrlToStorageInBackground(winnerPhoto, nameOfPhoto, imageCompleteListener);

Only happens on Android 6.0 it seems so far.

[Gareth Murfin]

im thinking this... 

 String roots[] =FileSystemStorage.getInstance().getRoots();

                for (int i=0; i<roots.length; i++)

                {

                    _("ROOT: "+roots[i]);

[Gareth Murfin]

ripped out everything i could yet its still happening. ;-(

[Gareth Murfin]

this explains a bit 

http://www.howtogeek.com/230683/how-to-manage-app-permissions-on-android-6.0/

although surely you dont need permission to write it internal storage?

[Shai Almog]

That's a generic article about Android permission prompts. Did you activate permission prompts in the simulator?

[Gareth Murfin]

Yes I did in the simulator I dont see anything pop up.

[Shai Almog]

In the device if you deny the permission you would usually see an output stack pointing you at the rough direction.
Is it possible that there is native code that triggers that permission?

[Gareth Murfin]

Unfortunately I cannot recreate them, only client can, I have tried geny motion with android 6 etc :-(

[Shai Almog]

After you grant a permission to an app Android doesn't re-prompt. You need to go to the apps settings in Android and revoke its permissions to make the app prompt for them again.

[Gareth Murfin]

Thanks Shai I will ask client to do that, I dont see anything in that link thatI aum using that would need access to media and files... Maybe it is due to us playing a video inside the app or something but that is stored in the jar.

[Gareth Murfin]

Client sent me a video, simply opening a browser link inside the app says "requires permission. this is required to open the file", all I can doing is:

Display.getInstance().execute(url);

[Gareth Murfin]

and then after that it asks for access to "photos,media and files on device", JUST from opening a link. Android 6 permissions are killing me, also none of this shows in simulator even with android 6 permissions ticked.

[Shai Almog]

Do you have an app associated with that URL by any chance?

[Gareth Murfin]

no, not even sure how to do that, all I want to do is launch a browser and visit it.

On 8 December 2016 at 13:32, Shai Almog <shai....@gmail.com> wrote:

Do you have an app associated with that URL by any chance?

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[Gareth Murfin]

Also why do I never get any permissions with the android 6 permission option on the simulator? It would be the perfect way to debug of course but doesnt seem to work here? 

[Gareth Murfin]

So if I set target sdk to 21, all my problems go away!

[Shai Almog]

Yes as we mentioned in the permissions post https://www.codenameone.com/blog/switching-on-android-marshmallow-permission-prompts.html
SDK 21 didn't include this but if you submit to google with SDK 23 you can't revert. They don't accept that which is REALLY frustrating.

[Gareth Murfin]

oh that could be bad!

On 9 December 2016 at 13:20, Shai Almog <shai....@gmail.com> wrote:

Yes as we mentioned in the permissions post https://www.codenameone.com/blog/switching-on-android-marshmallow-permission-prompts.html
SDK 21 didn't include this but if you submit to google with SDK 23 you can't revert. They don't accept that which is REALLY frustrating.

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