nRF Master Control panel not working with android marshmallow

[Daniel Abraham]

I am using nRF Master Control panel for testing my peripheral changes. It works fine until i upgrade my nexus 5 to android Marshmallow. Now the app cant even find BLE device during scan.

Seems like Marshmallow is strict, Need to get permission before accessing BLE layer. Please advise.

[Aleksander Nowakowski]

On Marshmallow you can deny the Location permission to all apps that you don't want to know your location (actually only those made for 6.0+).

[Aleksander Nowakowski]

Eventually, quite soon, I guess, all apps will be made for the new permission model. Also, we expect there will be a lot of beacons in the cities, which could be easily used for location tracking. If they were not included in the location permission/service an app could do exactly what you are talking about without your knowledge (if Bluetooth is enabled).

[endnode]

Yes, I've heard that this should work but have you tried to deny Location e.g. to apps which already come with Android 6.0 from Google (so they should be correctly coded or what the hell)? If you find out how to prevent apps like "Phone" or "Contacts" from accessing the location please let me know.

[Aleksander Nowakowski]

Did you try switching the permissions off for those apps? I can disable location permission for Contacts in app settings. Actually it's disabled by default. I can even deny Contacts permission to those apps.

[endnode]

You are right, I've found it now. Still don't get why I cannot manage this permission from "Location" menu but need to be looking 2 levels deeper in another branch of the tree... but that's probably my learning curve on Android M and other people feel this as intuitive. Thanks for help!