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Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
48/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
android, python

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Start with android.permissions.py and the permission entries supplied through buildozer.spec, then trace how declared permissions reach the Android app and how runtime requests are made. Reproduce the example with ACCESS_MEDIA_LOCATION and READ_MEDIA_VISUAL_USER_SELECTED; done means the app requests these permissions and check_permission() reports their results correctly.

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Description

feature-request

Hi !

READ_MEDIA_VISUAL_USER_SELECTED and ACCESS_MEDIA_LOCATION are missing from android.permissions.py, so I added them to my app:
from android.permissions import request_permissions, check_permission, Permission Permission.ACCESS_MEDIA_LOCATION = ("android.permission.ACCESS_MEDIA_LOCATION") Permission.READ_MEDIA_VISUAL_USER_SELECTED = ("android.permission.READ_MEDIA_VISUAL_USER_SELECTED")
And I also added these permisssions to buildozer.spec.
If I manually change Andriod parameters to grant or revoke these permissions, check_permission() indeed reports correct information.
But the app itself does not ask for these permissions to the user: what am I missing?

Thanks.

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