Has anyone tried to use accompanist permissions with special permissions like `android.permission.PA...

# compose-android

[Colton Idle]

Has anyone tried to use accompanist permissions with special permissions like android.permission.PACKAGE_USAGE_STATS? I have... and no luck in getting it to work. Open to any pointers...

[Chrimaeon]

The user has to manually grant it through the settings.

> NOTE: Most methods on this API require the permission android.permission.PACKAGE_USAGE_STATS. However, declaring the permission implies intention to use the API and the user of the device still needs to grant permission through the Settings application.

https://developer.android.com/reference/android/app/usage/UsageStatsManager.html

[Colton Idle]

Gotcha. Didn't know if maybe there was still a way to "observe" the value of that permission in my composable

[Alex Styl]

@Colton Idle i dont remember the implementation of accompanist permission but permissions on android are not observable. accompanist is probably checking if the app/lifecycle was moved to foreground and emit the permission state.

if accompanist doesn't work for the particular permission you need, what i said above is one way to fake the observability.

[Colton Idle]

will probably go that route. thanks for the pointer