Was out last week, but did manage to escalate the geolocation bug. Will
hopefully be fixed for official M release :)

On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 1:31 PM, Joe Bowser <bows...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Sent you the test app off-list.
>
> On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 11:12 AM Andrew Grieve <agri...@chromium.org>
> wrote:
>
> > Thanks for looking into this Joe! The runtime permissions is quite a big
> > change!
> >
> > M is still in preview, so if you find any webview bugs, please feel free
> to
> > send me a repro app and I'll do my best to get it fixed.
> >
> > In terms of Cordova API changes, here's some thoughts on your branch:
> > - Plugins may want to request different perms at different times, so I'd
> > remove new functions from CordovaPlugin except onRequestPermissionResult
> > - Might be better to copy how CordovaInterfaceImpl does
> > startActivityForResult/onActivityResponse rather than have PluginManager
> do
> > it.
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Jul 14, 2015 at 6:07 PM, Joe Bowser <bows...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > So, since Cordova-Android wasn't completely killed off by Google at the
> > > last Google IO like I thought it would be, we're going to have to make
> > sure
> > > it's compatible with Android M (Marshmellow? Marzipan?).  The good news
> > is
> > > that this only affects the following plugins:
> > >
> > > MediaRecorder
> > > Contacts
> > > File
> > > FileTransfer
> > > Geolocation
> > >
> > > Now, for the really bad news.  We might have to write a Geolocation
> > plugin
> > > for Android again, because Google's Android WebView doesn't play nice
> > with
> > > Android's new permission system, and even when you do grant the
> > application
> > > containing the process permission to use geolocation, you still get a
> > > location error.  I still have to test this further, but it also may be
> > > possible that file URIs no longer have the ability to get the
> geolocation
> > > either, which would be weird, since this would be a Chrome thing and
> not
> > an
> > > Android thing.
> > >
> > > Given our poor track record of maintaining plugins in general, and the
> > > weird errors with Geolocation, I'm not really wanting to bring back the
> > > code, so I'm hoping that this gets resolved in M3 with the next dev
> > version
> > > of M.
> > >
> > > But so far, I have the changes that I made to Cordova on a private
> branch
> > > on Github that people can see here:
> > >
> > > https://github.com/infil00p/cordova-android/tree/m-compat
> > >
> > > Let me know if you have any questions.  I'm not sure whether this makes
> > > perfect sense yet, but I think these API changes indicate that we
> should
> > > probably bump the version to 5.0 once M comes out.
> > >
> > > Thoughts? Questions?
> > >
> >
>

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