Required Permissions

Necessary Permissions

To access Bluetooth Services, Android requires ProGlove Connect to have the "Location Permission" - more technically, ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION.

<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION" />

As access to the device location is of a high privacy impact, Android requires the user (or MDM) to give it explictly.

Note: ProGlove Connect does not gather, store or process any kind of location data. Only the bluetooth components are used

Upon starting ProGlove Connect and selecting "Scan2Pair", the permission is requested if it was not given beforehand

To grant the necessary permissions during installtion via a script, execute the following shell commands on android (with management permissions):

pm grant de.proglove.connect android.permission.ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION

If you want to try this out over adb, you can execute

adb shell <<EOF
pm grant de.proglove.connect android.permission.ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION
EOF

Upon installation, several permissions are automatically (implicitly) granted to the ProGlove Connect App. These are listed below

Permission to query changes in network state.

<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE" \>

Permissions to discover and Pair BLE-Devices.

<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.BLUETOOTH" \> 
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.BLUETOOTH_ADMIN" \>

Starting with API 28 foreground-services must declare this permission.

<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.FOREGROUND_SERVICE" \>

Network access is used to upload Crash reports to Firebase and in some build variant to upload scan and device information to the proglove cloud.

<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET" \>