ActivityCompat.requestPermissions not showing dialog box

Question

if (ContextCompat.checkSelfPermission(RegisterActivity.this,      Manifest.permission.READ_PHONE_STATE) == PackageManager.PERMISSION_DENIED){
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Answer 1

I had the same issue and it turned out to be due to the manifest merger tool pulling in an android:maxSdkVersion attribute from a dependency.

To view the actual permissions you're requesting in your APK you can use the aapt tool, like this:

/path/to/android-sdk/build-tools/version/aapt d permissions /path/to/your-apk.apk

in my case, it printed:

uses-permission: name='android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE' maxSdkVersion='18'

even though I hadn't specified a maxSdkVersion in my manifest. I fixed this issue by changing in my manifest to:

(where the tools namespace is http://schemas.android.com/tools)