Android GoogleMaps myLocation Permission

Question

With the more recent version of Android... you are supposed to check if the user has given you permission before you use their location info. I\'ve gone through the android

Answer 1

Also, checking to see if you have the permissions and actually requesting it are two different things.

As the android developer blog suggests you need to ask for permissions in a way like this:

ActivityCompat.requestPermissions(this, new String[]{Manifest.permission.ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION}, PERMISSIONS_RESULT_CODE);

And then handle the result of the request by overriding onRequestPermissionsResult(int requestCode, String permissions[], int[] grantResults).