Allow Wifi detection to not require location

[kholdstayr]

I've noticed that the wifi SSID Scanning trigger/action in Automagic require location to be enabled on my Android 7 phone. Without location, the SSID list will be empty. I've tested two other automation apps, Automate and Tasker, and found that they do not require location to be enabled and they will still provide an SSID list. I'm going to try to do some Google searching to figure out which method they use to do this.

[Martin]

Hi,

Tasker and Automate target an old Android version and don't support runtime permissions yet. Google added this new limitation for apps that support runtime permissions if I remember right. Tasker and Automate will suffer from the same artificial limitation when they support runtime permissions. Workarounds are quite complicated since it would require a second app that imitates an old app and provides the result to the main Automagic app.

Regards,
Martin

[kholdstayr]

Hi,

Tasker and Automate target an old Android version and don't support runtime permissions yet. Google added this new limitation for apps that support runtime permissions if I remember right. Tasker and Automate will suffer from the same artificial limitation when they support runtime permissions. Workarounds are quite complicated since it would require a second app that imitates an old app and provides the result to the main Automagic app.

Regards,
Martin

Hello Martin,

Thanks for the reply. I see that you are 100% correct. I tried to Google for a solution and found that there isn't any. Tasker and Automate are building for older Android versions and are able to get around the restrictions that way.