android - ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION permission error emulator only

Question

I'm having a weird error while using the emulator ONLY. I found one question that has the same issue 9 months ago with no answers at all...

I'm using google play services locations to get locations in my app and I'm sure of my manifest permissions and everything works perfectly on my phone, the problem occurs when using an emulator only, and I tried different emulators on both my iMac and Windows machines.

I doubt that emulators don't support this basic function!

here is my manifest code:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    package="com.orderme.ordermeandroid" >
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET"></uses-permission>
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_COARSE_LOCATION"/>
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION"/>

and here is where the exception is firing:

    LocationRequest mLocationRequest = new LocationRequest();
    mLocationRequest.setInterval(10000);
    mLocationRequest.setFastestInterval(5000);
    mLocationRequest.setPriority(LocationRequest.PRIORITY_HIGH_ACCURACY);
    LocationServices.FusedLocationApi.requestLocationUpdates(googleApiClient,mLocationRequest,this);

stack trace:

08-26 14:01:19.699  10157-10157/com.orderme.ordermeandroid E/AndroidRuntime﹕ FATAL EXCEPTION: main
Process: com.orderme.ordermeandroid, PID: 10157
java.lang.SecurityException: Client must have ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION permission to request PRIORITY_HIGH_ACCURACY locations.
        at android.os.Parcel.readException(Parcel.java:1599)
        at android.os.Parcel.readException(Parcel.java:1552)
        at com.google.android.gms.location.internal.zzg$zza$zza.zza(Unknown Source)
        at com.google.android.gms.location.internal.zzi.zza(Unknown Source)
        at com.google.android.gms.location.internal.zzj.zza(Unknown Source)
        at com.google.android.gms.location.internal.zzd$1.zza(Unknown Source)
        at com.google.android.gms.location.internal.zzd$1.zza(Unknown Source)
        at com.google.android.gms.common.api.zzc$zza.zzb(Unknown Source)
        at com.google.android.gms.common.api.zzf.zza(Unknown Source)
        at com.google.android.gms.common.api.zzf.zzb(Unknown Source)
        at com.google.android.gms.common.api.zzi.zzb(Unknown Source)
        at com.google.android.gms.location.internal.zzd.requestLocationUpdates(Unknown Source)
        at com.orderme.ordermeandroid.Main.MainActivity.onConnected(MainActivity.java:184)
        at com.google.android.gms.common.internal.zzk.zzh(Unknown Source)
        at com.google.android.gms.common.api.zzg.zznt(Unknown Source)
        at com.google.android.gms.common.api.zzg.onConnected(Unknown Source)
        at com.google.android.gms.common.api.zzi$2.onConnected(Unknown Source)
        at com.google.android.gms.common.internal.zzj$zzg.zzoD(Unknown Source)
        at com.google.android.gms.common.internal.zzj$zza.zzc(Unknown Source)
        at com.google.android.gms.common.internal.zzj$zza.zzs(Unknown Source)
        at com.google.android.gms.common.internal.zzj$zzc.zzoF(Unknown Source)
        at com.google.android.gms.common.internal.zzj$zzb.handleMessage(Unknown Source)
        at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:102)
        at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:148)
        at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:5417)
        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
        at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:726)
        at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:616)

Answer 1

My guess is that you are running this on an Android 6.0+ emulator and you have a targetSdkVersion of 23 or higher.

In that case, ACCESS_COARSE_LOCATION and ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION are part of the Android 6.0 runtime permission system. Either revise your app to participate in this system, or drop your targetSdkVersion below 23.