Permission denial exception, even though correct permissions have been added to the Manifest?

Question

I am creating a method that gets all names and numbers from an Android phone.

private void getContactList() {
    Cursor contacts = getContentResolver().query(ContactsContract.Contacts.CONTENT_URI, null, null, null, null);
    String aNameFromContacts[] = new String[contacts.getCount()];
    String aNumberFromContacts[] = new String[contacts.getCount()];
    int i = 0;

    int nameFieldColumnIndex = contacts.getColumnIndex(ContactsContract.Contacts.DISPLAY_NAME);
    int numberFieldColumnIndex = contacts.getColumnIndex(ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.NUMBER);

    while(contacts.moveToNext()) {

        String contactName = contacts.getString(nameFieldColumnIndex);
        aNameFromContacts[i] =    contactName ;

        String number = contacts.getString(numberFieldColumnIndex);
        aNumberFromContacts[i] =    number ;
        i++;
    }

    contacts.close();
}

In the Manifest, I have added:

<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.READ_CONTACTS" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.WRITE_CONTACTS" />

Unfortunately, I still get an exception:

java.lang.SecurityException: Permission Denial: opening provider    com.android.providers.contacts.ContactsProvider2 from ProcessRecord{cb99505 8760:net.zedge.vibtest/u0a80} (pid=8760, uid=10080) requires   android.permission.READ_CONTACTS or android.permission.WRITE_CONTACTS

Why might this be?

have you defined runtime permission? – Milan Pansuriya Jun 21 '18 at 07:37 — Milan Pansuriya, Jun 21 '18 at 07:37
No! Thank you for the tip, I will Google that now – Nora Jun 21 '18 at 07:38 — Nora, Jun 21 '18 at 07:38

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 21 '18 at 08:17

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Prior to Android Marshmallow, declaring the permissions in manifest was enough and system used to grant those permissions during installation. But starting from Android M declaring the permissions is not enough. The authority to grant the permission has been transferred to user. You need to request those permissions at runtime in order to allow users to grant the permissions.

Follow this official documentation for implementation details.

answered Jun 21 '18 at 08:17

Sagar

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Thank you! I learned how to do it now with the easy-permissions library :) – Nora Jun 21 '18 at 10:37

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 21 '18 at 08:05

if (ActivityCompat.checkSelfPermission(this, Manifest.permission.READ_CONTACTS) == PackageManager.PERMISSION_GRANTED && ActivityCompat.checkSelfPermission(this, Manifest.permission.WRITE_CONTACTS) == PackageManager.PERMISSION_GRANTED) {
      Cursor contacts = 
          getContentResolver().query(ContactsContract.Contacts.CONTENT_URI, null, 
          null, null, null);
      String aNameFromContacts[] = new String[contacts.getCount()];
      String aNumberFromContacts[] = new String[contacts.getCount()];
      int i = 0;

      int nameFieldColumnIndex = 
         contacts.getColumnIndex(ContactsContract.Contacts.DISPLAY_NAME);
      int numberFieldColumnIndex = 
         contacts.getColumnIndex(ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.NUMBER);

      while(contacts.moveToNext()) {

          String contactName = contacts.getString(nameFieldColumnIndex);
          aNameFromContacts[i] =    contactName ;

          String number = contacts.getString(numberFieldColumnIndex);
          aNumberFromContacts[i] =    number ;
          i++;
      }

      contacts.close();
}

@Nora Try like this, put your code inside the if condition. You are now checking if contacts permission is enabled in your device, if enabled the code inside gets executed else not.

Permission denial exception, even though correct permissions have been added to the Manifest?

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