Starting in Android Marshmallow, Android developers need to ask for certain permissions at runtime to allow the user a chance to reject those permissions without rejecting the entire app. For the most part, it’s been a great change to the Android ecosystem. However, it has also come with a non-trivial amount of developer pain.
Most Android developers are intimately familiar with the Android flow for requesting a permission. It requires you to request the permission and then handle the result of that permission request in another callback in the activity life cycle. This discrepancy between where you request a permission and where you learn if you’ve gotten it or not is the cause of a lot of headaches.
There’s a helpful library called RxPermissions that you’ll use in this chapter to help alleviate some of these pain points and give you a reactive flow when requesting permissions. What more could you want?
Getting started
Start off by opening the starter project for this chapter. You’ll work on the Wundercast app that you started earlier in the book. Recall that Wundercast allows you to search for a city and see the temperature, humidity and other weather information.
In addition to the location and API key buttons you’ve come to love, there’s also two new buttons at the bottom of the screen for this chapter. The Save icon towards the left will, once you’re done with the chapter, save the currently displayed weather. The Clock icon to its right will then reload the last saved weather and display it in the app. Handy, right?
Then, in the starter project, open the WeatherApi.kt file, take the key you generated above and replace the placeholder in the top of the file:
val apiKey =
BehaviorSubject.createDefault("INSERT-API-KEY-HERE")
Once that’s done, run the app and make sure you can fetch the weather for your favorite city or town.
Requesting the location permission
When you first started working on Wundercast, the app would immediately request the location permission as soon as the app launched. As we all know, that’s not great user experience. It forces the user to make a quick decision about giving your app the location permission before they have a chance to see why you actually need it. In addition to that, requesting the permission without the proper context can make the user more likely to reject your permission. Instead, it’d be much better if you requested the location permission only after the user clicked the location button in the bottom-left.
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Using RxPermissions
You’ve got a working solution that incorporates permissions, but it took a lot of code, and you had to disrupt the existing reactive setup you had. It required storing more state, i.e., the view model, in your WeatherActivity class as well.
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Requesting another permission
You’ve got the basics of requesting permissions with RxPermissions down, good job! It’s time to implement the save and restore features mentioned earlier in the chapter.
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Key points
The RxPermissions library provides an easy mechanism through which to request permissions.
You can chain Observables you get back from the library with other Observables just like normal.
Keep in mind that the code requesting permissions has to be made in an initialization method (like onCreate or onStart).
Use ensure if you’re triggering the permission request off some other event.
Use request if you’re triggering the permission request as soon as the page loads.
Where to go from here?
RxPermissions is another great example of the Android community embracing the Rx paradigm. In the next chapter, you’ll dive into yet another library that equally embraces Rx, however, what makes the library interesting is the fact that Google developed the library. Google’s decision to support RxJava through the JetPack components should be a compelling argument in favor of the library. When you’re ready, continue onwards!
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