Enable location services for Android if user chose Never option

Question

Is there any way to allow location services again for an app (or at least show the dialog) if the user previously chose the option Never?

Answer 1

I didn't find any workaround to enable location services if earlier the user had chosen "Never" option, so I followed @Lesvmac answer's above to ask user again to delete and reinstall app, but this I think isn't correct way to solve this problem around .

So at present best way is to not allow "Never" option to appear in request dialog. Try to add

builder.setAlwaysShow(true);

to LocationSettingsRequest.Builder which will result in only "Yes" and "No" option instead of default "Never", "Yes" & "Not Now" & you will never receive SETTINGS_CHANGE_UNAVAILABLE

Here's the full method:

 private void requestSettings() {
    LocationSettingsRequest.Builder builder =
            new LocationSettingsRequest.Builder()
                    .setAlwaysShow(true)
                    .addLocationRequest(request);
    PendingResult result =
            LocationServices.SettingsApi.checkLocationSettings(mGoogleApiClient,
                    builder.build());

    result.setResultCallback(this);
}

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