Enabling a Cordova app to support Android SDK version 23 permissions
You might need to update some items to support permission handling for your IBM MobileFirst™ Platform Foundation version 7.1 Apache Cordova applications that target Android SDK version 23 and request permissions at runtime.
About this task
The original version of the IBM MobileFirst Platform Foundation
version 7.1 did not support permission handling for Android SDK version 23. Enabling this support
required some changes to the cordova-android platform and the following Cordova core plug-ins that
are included with IBM MobileFirst Platform Foundation:
- Camera
- Contacts
- File
- Media
- Media-capture
To enable this support in your third-party Cordova plug-ins, complete the following steps: