Unable to startPearDiscovery - Android 10

[BRAVO68WEB]

Env

Device Name: POCO F1
Android Version: 10
React Native Version: 0.74.2

Issue

I am not able to start peer discovery on Andorid 10. It is working on Android 13+

Code sample

• Android Manifest

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools">
    <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET" />
    <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.SYSTEM_ALERT_WINDOW"/>
    <uses-permission
               android:required="true"
               android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_COARSE_LOCATION"/>
   <uses-permission
           android:required="true"
           android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_WIFI_STATE"/>
   <uses-permission
           android:required="true"
           android:name="android.permission.CHANGE_WIFI_STATE"/>
   <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE" />     
   <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_BACKGROUND_LOCATION" />
   <uses-feature
        android:name="android.hardware.wifi.direct"
        android:required="true" />
           
   <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE" />
   <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE"/>
   <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.NEARBY_WIFI_DEVICES"
        android:usesPermissionFlags="neverForLocation" />    
    <application
        android:usesCleartextTraffic="true"
        tools:targetApi="28"
        tools:ignore="GoogleAppIndexingWarning"/>
</manifest>

• p2pconnection.ts

public constructor() {
    this.isInitialized = false;
    this.startedPeerDiscovery = false;
  }

  public init = async () => {
    if (this.isInitialized) {
      return;
    }
    try {
      await initialize().then(() => {
        console.log('WifiP2P initialized');

        this.isInitialized = true;
      });
      const cl = await PermissionsAndroid.request(
        PermissionsAndroid.PERMISSIONS.ACCESS_COARSE_LOCATION,
        {
          title: 'Access to wi-fi P2P mode',
          message: 'ACCESS_COARSE_LOCATION',
        } as Rationale,
      );
      const fl = await PermissionsAndroid.request(
        PermissionsAndroid.PERMISSIONS.ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION,
        {
          title: 'Access to wi-fi P2P mode',
          message: 'ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION',
        } as Rationale,
      );
      const nwd = await PermissionsAndroid.request(
        PermissionsAndroid.PERMISSIONS.NEARBY_WIFI_DEVICES,
        {
          title: 'Access to wi-fi P2P mode',
          message: 'NEARBY_WIFI_DEVICES',
        } as Rationale,
      );

      const abl = await PermissionsAndroid.request(
        PermissionsAndroid.PERMISSIONS.ACCESS_BACKGROUND_LOCATION,
        {
          title: 'Access to wi-fi P2P mode',
          message: 'ACCESS_BACKGROUND_LOCATION',
        } as Rationale,
      );

      console.log('Permissions', cl, fl, nwd, abl);
    } catch (e) {
      console.error(e);
    }
  };

  public startPeerDiscovery = async () => {
    if (!this.isInitialized) {
      console.error('WifiP2P not initialized');
      return;
    }
    if (this.startedPeerDiscovery) {
      return;
    }
    try {
      await startDiscoveringPeers().then(() => {
        this.startedPeerDiscovery = true;
        console.log('Peer discovery started');
      });
    } catch (e) {
      console.log(e);
    }
  };

• Error Log

 LOG  WifiP2P initialized
 LOG  Permissions granted never_ask_again never_ask_again granted
 LOG  {"code": 0, "message": "Operation failed due to an internal error."}
 LOG  {"code": 0, "message": "Operation failed due to an internal error."}

Looks like ACCESS_COARSE_LOCATION and ACCESS_BACKGROUND_LOCATION is granted, but others are never_ask_again

Adb Logcat

logcat.log

[kirillzyusko]

Hello 👋

From the logs:

WifiPermissionsUtil: UID 10413 has no location permission

I think you need to grant permissions properly 🤔

[BRAVO68WEB]

I gave it BTW @kirillzyusko

[kirillzyusko]

@BRAVO68WEB but according to logs the service doesn't have a permission and because of that it can not be started 🤷‍♂️

[BRAVO68WEB]

But my ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION says granted

[kirillzyusko]

@BRAVO68WEB my expectation is that never_ask_again !== granted. Again, I would trust logcat output - if it's saying that location permission is not granted, then it means it's not granted and you need to figure out what's going wrong there...

[BRAVO68WEB]

Any hints what and where to check?

My background in not from Android but Web and DevOps

[kirillzyusko]

@BRAVO68WEB try to grant proper location permission. Can't give more exact direction - I don't have real Android 10 device.The only one way here is trial and error. Maybe try to use react-native-permission library 🤷‍♂️