How to programmatically open the Permission Screen for a specific app on Android Marshmallow?

Question

I have a question regarding the new Android Marshmallow release:

Is it achievable to display the Permission Screen for a specific app via an Intent or something similar?

It's possible to display the app settings with the following code - is there an analog solution for directly opening the Permission Screen?

startActivity(new Intent(android.provider.Settings.ACTION_APPLICATION_DETAILS_SETTINGS,
Uri.fromParts("package", getPackageName(), null)));

I already did some research on this but I wasn't able to find a proper solution - I would appreciate every help!

Answer 1

According to the official Marshmallow permissions video (at the 4m 43s mark), you must open the application Settings page instead (from there it is one click to the Permissions page).

To open the settings page, you would do

Intent intent = new Intent(Settings.ACTION_APPLICATION_DETAILS_SETTINGS);
Uri uri = Uri.fromParts("package", getPackageName(), null);
intent.setData(uri);
startActivity(intent);

Answer 2

This is not possible. I tried to do so, too. I could figure out the package name and the activity which will be started. But in the end you will get a security exception because of a missing permission you can't declare.

UPDATE:

Regarding the other answer I also recommend to open the App settings screen. I do this with the following code:

    public static void startInstalledAppDetailsActivity(final Activity context) {
    if (context == null) {
        return;
    }
    final Intent i = new Intent();
    i.setAction(Settings.ACTION_APPLICATION_DETAILS_SETTINGS);
    i.addCategory(Intent.CATEGORY_DEFAULT);
    i.setData(Uri.parse("package:" + context.getPackageName()));
    i.addFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK);
    i.addFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NO_HISTORY);
    i.addFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_EXCLUDE_FROM_RECENTS);
    context.startActivity(i);
}

As I don't want to have this in my history stack I remove it using intent flags.

Answer 3

Intent intent = new Intent(Settings.ACTION_APPLICATION_DETAILS_SETTINGS);
intent.addFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK);
Uri uri = Uri.fromParts("package", getPackageName(), null);
intent.setData(uri);
startActivity(intent);

Description

Settings.ACTION_APPLICATION_DETAILS_SETTINGS
   Opens Details setting page for App. From here user have to manually assign desired permission.

Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK
   Optional. If set then opens Settings Screen(Activity) as new activity. Otherwise, it will be opened in currently running activity.

Uri.fromParts("package", getPackageName(), null)
   Prepares or creates URI, whereas, getPackageName() - returns name of your application package.

intent.setData(uri)
   Don't forget to set this. Otherwise, you will get android.content.ActivityNotFoundException. Because you have set your intent as Settings.ACTION_APPLICATION_DETAILS_SETTINGS and android expects some name to search.

Answer 4

Instead, you can open particular app's general settings with one line

 startActivity(new Intent(android.provider.Settings.ACTION_APPLICATION_DETAILS_SETTINGS, Uri.parse("package:" + BuildConfig.APPLICATION_ID)));

Answer 5

If you want to write less code in Kotlin you can do this:

fun Context.openAppSystemSettings() {
    startActivity(Intent().apply {
        action = Settings.ACTION_APPLICATION_DETAILS_SETTINGS
        data = Uri.fromParts("package", packageName, null)
    })
}

Based on Martin Konecny answer

Answer 6

Kotlin style.

    startActivity(Intent(Settings.ACTION_APPLICATION_DETAILS_SETTINGS).apply {
        data = Uri.fromParts("package", packageName, null)
    })

Answer 7

It is not possible to programmatically open the permission screen. Instead, we can open the app settings screen.

Code

Intent i = new Intent(android.provider.Settings.ACTION_APPLICATION_DETAILS_SETTINGS, Uri.parse("package:" + BuildConfig.APPLICATION_ID));
startActivity(i);

Sample Output

Answer 8

Starting with Android 11, you can directly bring up the app-specific settings page for the location permission only using code like this: requestPermissions(arrayOf(Manifest.permission.ACCESS_BACKGROUND_LOCATION), PERMISSION_REQUEST_BACKGROUND_LOCATION)

However, the above will only work one time. If the user denies the permission or even accidentally dismisses the screen, the app can never trigger this to come up again.

Other than the above, the answer remains the same as prior to Android 11 -- the best you can do is bring up the app-specific settings page and ask the user to drill down two levels manually to enable the proper permission.

val intent = Intent(Settings.ACTION_APPLICATION_DETAILS_SETTINGS)
val uri: Uri = Uri.fromParts("package", packageName, null)
intent.data = uri
// This will take the user to a page where they have to click twice to drill down to grant the permission
startActivity(intent)

See my related question here: Android 11 users can’t grant background location permission?

Answer 9

Xamarin Forms Android:

//---------------------------------------------------------
public void OpenSettings()
//---------------------------------------------------------
{
    var intent = new Intent(Android.Provider.Settings.ActionApplicationDetailsSettings,
        Android.Net.Uri.Parse("package:" + Forms.Context.PackageName));
    Forms.Context.StartActivity(intent);
}

Answer 10

May be this will help you

private void openSettings() {
    Intent intent = new Intent(Settings.ACTION_APPLICATION_DETAILS_SETTINGS);
    Uri uri = Uri.fromParts("package", getPackageName(), null);
    intent.setData(uri);
    startActivityForResult(intent, 101);
}

Answer 11

If we are talking about FLYME OS (Meizu) ONLY there are it's own Security app with permissions.

To open it use following intent:

public static void openFlymeSecurityApp(Activity context) {
    Intent intent = new Intent("com.meizu.safe.security.SHOW_APPSEC");
    intent.addCategory(Intent.CATEGORY_DEFAULT);
    intent.putExtra("packageName", BuildConfig.APPLICATION_ID);
    try {
        context.startActivity(intent);
    } catch (Exception e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }
}

Of-cause BuildConfig is your app's BuildConfig.

Answer 12

it is not possible to pragmatically get the permission... but ill suggest you to put that line of code in try{} catch{} which make your app unfortunately stop... and in catch body make a dialog box which will navigate the user to small tutorial to enable the draw over other apps permission... then on yes button click put this code...

 Intent callSettingIntent= new Intent(Settings.ACTION_MANAGE_OVERLAY_PERMISSION);
            startActivity(callSettingIntent);

this intent is to directly open the list of draw over other apps to manage permissions and then from here it is one click to the draw over other apps Permissions ... i know this is Not the answer you're looking for... but Im doing this in my apps...

Answer 13

Try This

  Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_MAIN);
  intent.setComponent(new ComponentName(appDetails.packageName,"com.android.packageinstaller.permission.ui.ManagePermissionsActivity"));
  startActivity(intent);