Cannot resolve method checkSelfPermission

Question

I\'m trying to make my app ready for Android 6 and now I\'m stuck to the point where you need to request and check permissions.

I tried the following from the docs:

Answer 1

I had the same problem. In my case I added a library that was using an old appcompat version, then the compiler could not find the right appcompat.

To fix the problem I added the option {transitive = false} while importing the culprit library, and this fixed the problem.

Now I have:

api ('org.library.using.old.appcompat:1.0.1') {transitive = false}