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How to Build Android Apps with Kotlin

You're reading from   How to Build Android Apps with Kotlin A hands-on guide to developing, testing, and publishing your first apps with Android

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838984113
Length 794 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Eran Boudjnah Eran Boudjnah
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters Close

Preface
1. Creating Your First App 2. Building User Screen Flows FREE CHAPTER 3. Developing the UI with Fragments 4. Building App Navigation 5. Essential Libraries: Retrofit, Moshi, and Glide 6. RecyclerView 7. Android Permissions and Google Maps 8. Services, WorkManager, and Notifications 9. Unit Tests and Integration Tests with JUnit, Mockito, and Espresso 10. Android Architecture Components 11. Persisting Data 12. Dependency Injection with Dagger and Koin 13. RxJava and Coroutines 14. Architecture Patterns 15. Animations and Transitions with CoordinatorLayout and MotionLayout 16. Launching Your App on Google Play

Requesting Permissions from the User

Our app might want to implement certain features that are deemed to be dangerous by Google. This usually means access to those features could risk the user's privacy. Those permissions may, for example, allow you to read users' messages or determine their current location.

Depending on the particular permission and the target Android API level we are developing, we may need to request that permission from the user. If the device is running on Android 6 (Marshmallow, or API level 23), and the target API of our app is 23 or higher, which it almost certainly will be, as most devices by now will run newer versions of Android, there will be no user notifications alerting the user of any permissions requested by the app at install time. Instead, our app must ask the user to grant it those permissions at runtime.

When we request a permission, the user sees a dialog much like the one shown in the following screenshot:

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