RE: Removes Permission?

[canalrun]

Removes Permission?

if you find a difference in the manifest, then as it seems to be, the build process somehow removes a relevant part and this should then be fixed by the MIT App Inventor team. You then could send me your project as personal message and I will forward it to the MIT App Inventor team so they can find out, what exactly needs to be fixed. I agree... this is only a workaround... Taifun Trying to push the limits! Snippets, Tutorials and Extensions from Pura Vida…

Thanks for agreeing to look at this. I hope I've done as much of the work as possible.

I created two test versions of my APK. I appended the name of the first one with "_LS", for Location Sensor and I appended the second one with "_LS_TW" for Location Sensor + Taifun WiFi.

I've attached text versions of the manifest for both APKs:
The _LS APK: AndroidManifest_LS.txt (3.0 KB)
and the _LS_TW APK: AndroidManifes_LS_TW.txt (2.7 KB)

I used Notepad++ to do a comparison of the two text APK's. Unfortunately I don't know how to output the colored version of the comparison – I could only take screenshots:

The_LS comparison window screenshot:

The_LS_TW comparison window screenshot:

Comparing the two screenshots:
Line 4 on the _LS manifest is missing the Change_Wi-Fi_State permission – that's to be expected.
On line 20 there is a name difference in the two manifests – also to be expected.
On lines 25-29 the _LS_TW manifest is missing the service declaration – Bingo

I would be willing to bet this is the problem. Do you agree?

Thanks,
Barry.