Location Permissions On Android 5.1

We have built and deployed a location-based shopping app that worked perfectly. That is until we discovered that our app does not work on Android 5.1.1 devices due to a Security Ex

Solution 1:

You can use the new ContextCompat class and the method checkSelfPermission for checking the permission before you execute the line of code that needed a check of permission.

public static boolean isPermissionGranted(String permission, Context context){
        //int res = ContextCompat.checkSelfPermission(context, permission);
        return (ContextCompat.checkSelfPermission(context, permission) == PackageManager.PERMISSION_GRANTED);
    }

Now for permission for location you need to either check once if the user granted ACCESS_COARSE_LOCATION or ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION within your app.