Permission Denial: startActivity asks to run as user -2 but is calling from user 0; this requires android.permission.INTERACT_ACROSS_USERS_FULL

Question

When I\'m trying to use android \'am\' command to start an activity ,it\'s wrong under 4.2 platform(I tried , it\'s ok under 2.3 version).The code is like this

Answer 1

Permissions are just a line of code that you need to add in the manifest to inform that you accessing those resources and requesting android to allow these resources to use.

1) i just added an example containing permission.

2) In Linux there is root user ,group and others . 0 comes to root and UID cannot be negative its value is between 0 - 999. See this link