MIUI 10 doesn't let service start activity - Xiaomi Redmi Note

Question

My app has a service and an activity. From the service, activity is called with following code:

Intent intent = new Intent(getApplicationContext(), MainActi         


        

Answer 1

In App Info screen from the system Settings app > Other permissions > Display pop-up windows while running in the background.

This seems introduced in MIUI 11.

Edit: here is a piece of code that I use. I add that into a permission list in a RecyclerView.

Class c = Class.forName("android.os.SystemProperties");
Method get = c.getMethod("get", String.class);
String miui = (String) get.invoke(c, "ro.miui.ui.version.name");
if (miui != null && miui.contains("11")) {
            PermissionData mPopup = new PermissionData();
            mPopup.text = "Other permissions > Display pop-up while in background";
            mPopup.onClickListener = new View.OnClickListener() {
                @Override
                public void onClick(View v) {
                    Intent intent = new Intent(Settings.ACTION_APPLICATION_DETAILS_SETTINGS);
                    Uri uri = Uri.fromParts("package", getPackageName(), null);
                    intent.setData(uri);
                    startActivity(intent);
                }
            };

            mPermissionData.add(mPopup);
}

UPDATE: To check if this permission is granted you could use an already running service and launch a dummy transparent activity, and in the onCreate call back on a LocalBroadcastManager or similar and you'll know it's granted. It's an ugly solution, but it may be useful for some.