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Reputation: 1370

App not sending location from Foreground service on Android 10

My app is targetting API 28. I have a foreground service sending location updates.

The app stops sending locations when the following conditions are met:

On running

adb shell dumpsys package packageName

I see that

android.permission.ACCESS_BACKGROUND_LOCATION: granted=false

From the documentation, it appears that the "android.permission.ACCESS_BACKGROUND_LOCATION" permission was backward compatible.

How do I fix this issue? Is there a way to disable the tri-state permission request?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 2127

Answers (1)

Tom
Tom

Reputation: 7804

Per https://developer.android.com/about/versions/10/privacy/changes#app-access-device-location

An app is considered to be accessing location in the background unless one of the following conditions is satisfied:

  • An activity belonging to the app is visible.
  • The app is running a foreground service that has declared a foreground service type of location.

You're using a foreground service to get location updates but (I assume) you haven't told the OS that, so it believes you're accessing the location in the background. All you need to do is declare that your foreground service processes location.

<service android:name="com.example.MyForegroundService"
         android:foregroundServiceType="location"/>

Now when your service is running, the OS treats your app as being in the foreground for the purposes of auditing location access - and you don't need ACCESS_BACKGROUND_LOCATION.

Upvotes: 3

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