android - Does checking the Never ask again box when asking for a runtime permission disable future dialogs?

Question

If a user denies a runtime permission with Never ask again checked, does this disable any future ability to ask for the same permission? Does the user have to go through settings to enable that permission?

In my application, when I call

ActivityCompat.requestPermissions(this, 
            new String[]{Manifest.permission.READ_PHONE_STATE}, 
            0)

and that permission has previously been denied with Never ask again checked, it won't show a dialog box at all. Is this the expected behavior?

Answer 1

Yes it will disable. But, you can do something to detect if the user have set some permissions not to request again. You can check it in the onRequestPermissionsResult() method

@Override
public void onRequestPermissionsResult(int requestCode, @NonNull String[] permissions, @NonNull int[] grantResults) {
    for(String permission: permissions){
            if(ActivityCompat.shouldShowRequestPermissionRationale(this, permission)){
                //denied
                Log.e("denied", permission);
            }else{
                if(ActivityCompat.checkSelfPermission(this, permission) == PackageManager.PERMISSION_GRANTED){
                    //allowed
                    Log.e("allowed", permission);
                } else{
                    //set to never ask again
                    Log.e("set to never ask again", permission);
                    //do something here.
                }
            }
        }
}

I have prepared a helper library for permission to handle such contition here on GitHub.