Why Location Permission Are Required For Ble Scan In Android Marshmallow Onwards

With the latest release of Android called Marshmallow,Starting a Bluetooth Low Energy scan requires permission from Location group. As a result of that one of the following permiss

Solution 1:

BLE beacons can be used to get location information using nothing more than the BLE broadcast UUID data and an internet connection (e.g. iBeacon, AltBeacon etc.) Since this is possible and the data can be acquired via scan, a permission for location is required. In reality, ACCESS_COARSE_LOCATION is the required level in order to get NetworkProvider level of permission. By using, ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION you get NetworkProvider as well as GPS.

Solution 2:

Bluetooth permissions let you scan beacons in the foreground without location permissions, but for background scanning you will need location permissions turned on. if you are adding this permissions

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

then you will have to use this permission also

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

<uses-featureandroid:name="android.hardware.location.gps" />

see developer guide here