Android resolution is automatically rejected upon request. Walkthrough from MainActivity

Question

In the main action of the Android application, I check the permissions ( Manifest.permission.MANAGE_DOCUMENTS ), find that I do not have them, and call requestPermisions . Then in onRequestPermissionResult I almost immediately get permission denied without displaying a dialog.

I already confirmed the same permission in another action of the same application (through requestPermissions again, that works), so I expected this solution to be saved (for the session or something else), and I never chose to refuse permission . In either case, the permission dialog is not displayed, and permission is automatically resolved.

So far I have tested this on Android 7 and 6 emulators (API 24 and 23).

I tried:

• clearing the application data cache and erasing the device, so it’s fresh
• definitely not this Getting permission on Android M
• spelling checked three times after looking at this onRequestPermissionsResult returns immediately with the forbidden permission , and I call the super method
• a bunch of other stack overflow suggestions

I am very confused ...

Here is a permission request (see comment in code):

 private fun askForPermissionOrSendRequest(view: View, permission: String) { if (checkSelfPermission(permission) == PackageManager.PERMISSION_DENIED) { if (shouldShowRequestPermissionRationale(permission)) { cachedView = view val explanationDialog = AlertDialog.Builder(this).setMessage("We need permissions to read your storage in order to show your profile image.").setOnDismissListener { requestPermissions( arrayOf(permission), BSMainActivity.permissionRequestSendProfilePic ) }.create() explanationDialog.show() } else { cachedView = view // this branch is always hit - the permission seems to be missing every time requestPermissions( arrayOf(permission), BSMainActivity.permissionRequestSendProfilePic ) } } else { sendRequest(view) } } 

I immediately get to the result handler without a dialog box appearing to ask me about permissions. I may or could not confirm the same permission in another (child) action of the same application (it doesn't seem to matter).

 override fun onRequestPermissionsResult(requestCode: Int, permissions: Array<String>, grantResults: IntArray ) { super.onRequestPermissionsResult(requestCode, permissions, grantResults) when (requestCode) { BSMainActivity.permissionRequestSendProfilePic -> { // This gets hit, MANAGE_DOCUMENTS was denied if (permissions.contains(Manifest.permission.MANAGE_DOCUMENTS) && grantResults[permissions.indexOf(Manifest.permission.MANAGE_DOCUMENTS)] == PackageManager.PERMISSION_DENIED) { Log.w(logName, "Permission to open image was denied while sending a tag request: %s %s".format( permissions.joinToString(",", "[", "]"), grantResults.joinToString(",", "[", "]") )) } // send request regardless of the result for now sendRequest(cachedView) } } } 

In my manifest, I have the following:

 <manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" package="me.monomon.bs"> <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET"/> <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE"/> <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.MANAGE_DOCUMENTS"/> 

Answer 1

Only dangerous permissions can be requested at runtime, and MANAGE_DOCUMENTS not a dangerous permission.

According to the MANAGE_DOCUMENTS documentation :

This permission should only be requested by the platform document management application. This permission cannot be granted to third-party applications.