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Harry248
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February 18, 2016
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Android M permissions

  • February 18, 2016
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Is Adobe AIR going to be compatible with the new permission system on Android? I have upgraded the targetSDKVersion to 23, only to find out, that some AIR Apps are no longer working (crashing or freezing) on devices with Android 6.

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marcanw
Inspiring
October 20, 2016

I got an ane and as3 code that handles this fine on Marshmallow. So if anyone is interested just pm me.

Oldes
Oldes
Inspiring
October 24, 2016

I managed to get working own basic version.. it is freely available here:

GitHub - Oldes/ANEAndroidPermissions: Adobe Native Extension (ANE) for Android to deal with new permissions system for A…

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    marcanw
    Inspiring
    October 15, 2016

    I have also a lot of problem with the latest android versions.

    Mainly

    java.lang.SecurityException

    Msg: (Permission Denial: reading com.android.providers.media.MediaProvider uri content://media/external/images/media from pid=31998, uid=10142 requires android.permission.READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE, or grantUriPermission())

    It's very annoying because we don't have access to the android permission scheme, so there is no way to catch it. Just the app doesn't work or crash.

    A workaround would be to change the targetSdkVersion to less than 23. Unfortunately google refuse the downgrade the targetSdkVersion.

    So once you set the targetSdkVersion to 23 and publish you have the problem... and then  can't go back. This is extremely annoying because it's just kill any air app on Marshmallow.

    Oldes
    Oldes
    Inspiring
    October 20, 2016

    I have the same problem and I'm writing native extension to handle it, but so far I don't know how to catch result from the requester.

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    bharanisasank
    Participating Frequently
    October 14, 2016

    Hi Harry,

    pointing targetSDKVersion to 23 will require the permissions to be asked in run time before we use or initialize feature.

    If required, For now we can create native extensions of our own to handle permissions flow.

    Best,

    Bharani

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