With the latest changes on mozilla-central, now "mach install" does *not* automatically grant permissions. (We're back to 'adb install <apk>' -- no -g.)
Instead, permissions are granted at test time, via 'mach robocop|mochitest|reftest|...' When these test commands are run on an Android 6 device, mach should report something like 'Granting important runtime permissions to org.mozilla.fennec' before starting the tests; behind the scenes, 'adb shell pm grant ... ' commands are issued. Tests run in autophone and with mozharness (those on treeherder) continue to install Firefox with -g. This way permissions won't get in the way of expected test behavior while local installs are simple and hide no surprises: You can install with 'mach install', have no permissions granted and trigger permission prompts manually. - Geoff On Fri, Jan 22, 2016 at 1:54 AM, Sebastian Kaspari <[email protected]> wrote: > To unblock Autophone and test automation in general we landed a patch that > will change "mach install" in a way that it will automatically grant all > permissions at install time (adb install *-g* <apk>). So if you are using > "mach install" you wont see any permission prompts because your app already > has all the needed permissions. You'll need to manually revoke them - if > you want to. > > For gradle builds nothing has changed. > > However if you grant permissions at install time, uninstall the app, do a > fresh new install, then the app will still have some permissions. Android > does cache some of those as it seems. Anyways: If you are adding or > changing code that requires a permission then take care of testing this > part with and without permissions: You magically might have the needed > permissions already - without being prompted ever. > > We (or more: gbrown) is looking into automatically granting permissions > when running "mach roboccop|mochitest" (adb shell pm grant ..). After that > we might be able to restore the old "mach install" behavior and reduce the > confusion a bit. > > Relevant bugs: > https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1234799 > https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1241267 > >
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