android ContextCompat.checkSelfPermission() not found

Question

I am trying to make runtime permissions backward compatible with older devices but using the support library i cant find checkSelfPermission() static call in

Answer 1

checkSelfPermission() didn't get introduced into the native Context until API 23. So you will need to use at least version 23.0.0 of the support library.

You should change this

compile 'com.android.support:appcompat-v7:22.1.1'

to this

compile 'com.android.support:appcompat-v7:23.0.1'