How to launch the location settings in Android for a specific app

Question

To enable "Allow all the time" location permissions in an Android app, how to launch the location settings for the app in the Android settings?

I have seen how to launch the Android settings page for location (all apps), and how to launch the settings for a specific app, but not how to deep link to the location settings for a specific app.

This is what I currently have:

fun openAppLocationSettings(context: Context) {
        val intent = Intent(Settings.ACTION_APPLICATION_DETAILS_SETTINGS)
        val packageName = context.packageName
        val uri = Uri.fromParts("package", packageName, null)
        intent.data = uri
        context.startActivity(intent)
    }

but it only shows the root page of the app Settings.

Answer 1

The solution here is not to try to use an intent to launch the location settings in Android. The way Android works on Android API >= 30, is that you first need to request location permissions for coarse and fine location. After the user has allowed the permission, then make another location permission request, for background location. So:

Step 1:

val permissionsToRequest: Array<String> = arrayOf(
                Manifest.permission.ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION,
                Manifest.permission.ACCESS_COARSE_LOCATION
            )
            launcher.launch(permissionsToRequest)

Step 2 (assuming user allows coarse/fine location permission in step 1):

val permissionsToRequest: String =
                Manifest.permission.ACCESS_BACKGROUND_LOCATION
            launcher.launch(permissionsToRequest)

However, instead of a dialog coming up for the "Allow all the time" location permission, Android navigates user to the location settings for the Android app.