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Sherly
Sherly

Reputation: 101

Android 11 restrictions on microphone use

Starting from Android 11, there are new restrictions introduced for microphone use. There are some exemptions given by Android. https://developer.android.com/guide/components/foreground-services#bg-access-restriction-exemptions. I'm interested in the last one -

The service is started by an app that has the START_ACTIVITIES_FROM_BACKGROUND privileged permission.

I declared this in the AndroidManifest.xml and allow-listed it, however, I'm still not able to use microphone when the app is running in background. Has anyone run into this before? Does the permission really help apps to escape from the restrictions? Thanks

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1254

Answers (1)

CommonsWare
CommonsWare

Reputation: 1006674

START_ACTIVITIES_FROM_BACKGROUND is not part of the Android SDK. And its protectionLevel is set to signature|privileged|vendorPrivileged|oem|verifier, at least on Android 11. Ordinary apps cannot hold this permission.

Upvotes: 2

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