ACCESS_MOCK_LOCATION

When I try to set a mock location on an emulator (Nexus_5_API_22) the appium settings is killed and I get the following info in the emulator log:

06-10 13:17:03.080: E/AndroidRuntime(7966): FATAL EXCEPTION: main
06-10 13:17:03.080: E/AndroidRuntime(7966): Process: io.appium.settings, PID: 7966
06-10 13:17:03.080: E/AndroidRuntime(7966): java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to start service io.appium.settings.LocationService@21c91729 with Intent { act=android.intent.action.MAIN cat=[android.intent.category.LAUNCHER] cmp=io.appium.settings/.LocationService (has extras) }: java.lang.SecurityException: Requires ACCESS_MOCK_LOCATION secure setting
06-10 13:17:03.080: E/AndroidRuntime(7966):     at android.app.ActivityThread.handleServiceArgs(ActivityThread.java:2911)
06-10 13:17:03.080: E/AndroidRuntime(7966):     at android.app.ActivityThread.access$2100(ActivityThread.java:151)
06-10 13:17:03.080: E/AndroidRuntime(7966):     at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:1401)
06-10 13:17:03.080: E/AndroidRuntime(7966):     at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:102)
06-10 13:17:03.080: E/AndroidRuntime(7966):     at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:135)
06-10 13:17:03.080: E/AndroidRuntime(7966):     at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:5254)
06-10 13:17:03.080: E/AndroidRuntime(7966):     at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
06-10 13:17:03.080: E/AndroidRuntime(7966):     at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:372)
06-10 13:17:03.080: E/AndroidRuntime(7966):     at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:903)
06-10 13:17:03.080: E/AndroidRuntime(7966):     at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:698)
06-10 13:17:03.080: E/AndroidRuntime(7966): Caused by: java.lang.SecurityException: Requires ACCESS_MOCK_LOCATION secure setting
06-10 13:17:03.080: E/AndroidRuntime(7966):     at android.os.Parcel.readException(Parcel.java:1546)
06-10 13:17:03.080: E/AndroidRuntime(7966):     at android.os.Parcel.readException(Parcel.java:1499)
06-10 13:17:03.080: E/AndroidRuntime(7966):     at android.location.ILocationManager$Stub$Proxy.addTestProvider(ILocationManager.java:1054)
06-10 13:17:03.080: E/AndroidRuntime(7966):     at android.location.LocationManager.addTestProvider(LocationManager.java:1216)
06-10 13:17:03.080: E/AndroidRuntime(7966):     at io.appium.settings.MockLocationProvider.pushLocation(MockLocationProvider.java:20)
06-10 13:17:03.080: E/AndroidRuntime(7966):     at io.appium.settings.LocationService.onStartCommand(LocationService.java:25)
06-10 13:17:03.080: E/AndroidRuntime(7966):     at android.app.ActivityThread.handleServiceArgs(ActivityThread.java:2894)
06-10 13:17:03.080: E/AndroidRuntime(7966):     ... 9 more

I'm running appium 1.5.3 on MacOSX 10.11.5
any hints?

appium logs: https://gist.github.com/rompic/dd05b209a8e8eff7238e058402237ab9

Can you please try the same in API Level 21 or lesser than 22 and update us?

can do (again).. guess it is the same as appium/java-client#407

on API level 21 I get:
06-10 14:09:13.599: W/ActivityManager(1484): Unable to start service Intent { act=android.intent.action.MAIN cat=[android.intent.category.LAUNCHER] cmp=io.appium.settings/.LocationService (has extras) } U=0: not found

in the android log

may that's also why it doesn't work on API level 21

The app has mock location access on (see https://github.com/appium/io.appium.settings/blob/master/AndroidManifest.xml#L32). Not sure why it is failing.

i just noticed that allow mock locations is not enabled by default in the api level 22 nexus 5 emulators (with google api).
it works after activating this setting.

however no luck with api level 21.

i can start the service via adb shell on api level 22 but not on 21

am startservice -e longitude 1 -e latitude 2 io.appium.settings/.LocationService
Starting service: Intent { act=android.intent.action.MAIN cat=[android.intent.category.LAUNCHER] cmp=io.appium.settings/.LocationServiceam (has extras) }
Error: Not found; no service started.

i manually uninstalled the appium settings app from the emulator and it seems that a newer version was installed by appium now. it now also works on api level 21.

However Appium should propably check the version.
06-10 15:38:16.747: W/PackageManager(1484): Attempt to re-install io.appium.settings without first uninstalling.

the problem could be that https://github.com/appium/io.appium.settings/blob/master/AndroidManifest.xml#L32 still has version 1.0 ?

maybe this should be true otherwise?

appium-android-driver/lib/android-helpers.js

Line 332 in 19e31eb

await adb.install(settingsApkPath, false);

for completeness: setting locations also works on Api 23 after sleecting the app in the developer settings to allow setting mock locations.

Issue moved to appium/appium #7404 via ZenHub