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Prevent "Never ask again" from firing Ionic/Cordova's pause/resume

I am using Cordova 5.1.1 and [email protected] for geolocation, which uses - cordova-plugin-compat for its Android 6+ permission needs.

When the permission popup is open, Cordova reasonably fires a "pause" document event, as expected, signalling the view having left from the app to the popup (cordova.js):

case 'pause':
// Volume events
case 'volumedownbutton':
case 'volumeupbutton':
    cordova.fireDocumentEvent(action);  // action being "pause"

case 'resume':
    ....

And when the user taps either "Deny" or "Allow", Cordova fires a "resume" document event, and ionic's $ionicPlatform.on('resume', ...) callback is run, also as expected.

However, after the user taps "Never ask again", all subsequent calls to request fine/coarse geolocation permissions fail without showing the permission popup, but still fire the "pause"/"resume" document events, which is unexpected.

Never ask again

The plugin does not have a check for showing permission rationale. Is there anything I can do to prevent pause/resume from being fired from JS if the user has already requested the app to never ask for permissions again?

Solution

  • The solution, upon inspection, is not to do anything in the $resume callback that obtains geolocation permissions.