Android Question Screen Overlay Detected

BitsAndBytes

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I test one of my android apps on an android 6.0.1 device and it appears permission error
"Screen Overlay Detected"

What is this? Thank you!
 

JordiCP

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Additionally, it seems to be a security measure of Android (6+) when a new app is requesting some permissions. Bringing the UI to manually grant some permissions is seen as potentially dangerous when there is an overlay, for obvious reasons.
So the only thing is to 'localize' which app is using overlays and disable them when you need to run the new one.
 
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