--- title: Removing Full-Screen Intent Permission from Flutter Android description: How to remove USE_FULL_SCREEN_INTENT permission so you can submit Flutter Android to Google Play Store published: true date: 2024-10-12 06:13:36 UTC tags: flutter, android, playstore canonical_url: https://www.junian.net/dev/flutter-android-remove-permission-use-full-screen-intent/ cover_image: https://i.ytimg.com/vi/re-KKieAO_Q/maxresdefault.jpg --- Today I'm trying to submit a new version of the Flutter Android app to Google Play Store. I didn't put any new features, just some bug fixes. I didn't even change the dependencies. Normally no issue whatsoever when I send it to the Google Play Store. But, something unexpected happened. I got an error message from the Play Store with the following message. > Your app uses the USE_FULL_SCREEN_INTENT permission. From May 31, 2024, some apps may no longer be eligible to have this permission pre-granted at install. Apps that aren't eligible or approved for this, must request permission from the user to launch an activity with full-screen intent. If the permission isn't granted and you don't check for this, your app will crash when full-screen intent is being used. Well, this is unusual. I didn't use that permission in my app. So it's probably coming from one of my dependencies. Luckily, it's an easy fix. To fix this issue, we just need to add a few lines to the `AndroidManifest.xml` file. You can find the manifest file at `android/app/src/main/AndroidManifest.xml`. Here's what the content of my manifest file looks like before I fix the issue. ```xml

``` Now let's fix it by adding some configuration lines. The first one is to add following snippet to `manifest` tag. ```xml xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools" ``` Then you also need to add the following user permission removal under the `manifest` tag. ```xml ``` The final `AndroidManifest.xml` file will look something like the following snippet. ```xml

``` Once you make the changes, update your app version, and republish to Google Play Store. This time it won't have any issue! Here's a video to visualize how I made the fix. Thanks for reading and have a good day! {% embed https://youtu.be/re-KKieAO_Q %} [![Subscribe to Junian Dev YouTube Channel](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCSx6KT2geZz3TgDYUlDWgamXCCztHusZY4FsB5gQfyhAu-omBphLzVSc8wD6o7crJ64XYaN6lmMrQ6FN9zvulN1t-P-CCa9ZvLLFn7LGnXpS-Rb5rQHqS3DwLrkbS_tAHzDcrH0sUxzkSEeeTnAis7dZpzZJhouuPnI4USQnXfmrb37gP7CD0uHR4qh8I/s300/youtube-subscribe-button-and-bell-icon.png "Subscribe to Junian Dev YouTube Channel")](https://www.youtube.com/@JunianDev?sub_confirmation=1)

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Removing Full-Screen Intent Permission from Flutter Android

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