Accessibility service

2020-03-22 1 min read
ACCESSIBILITY SERVICE
PERMISSION

Problem

When you try to enable the accessibility services for my app from within my app nothing happens.

Explanation

This can happen on some devices like e.g. a Xiami which uses non standard manufacture specific internal settings and don’t use the android defaults for some of their settings.

Solution

  • in your android device settings find the section called “Further settings”
  • look for “handling help” or similar
  • look for “more downloaded services” or similar
  • look for Everywhere Launcher and enable the accessibility service for my app

This should solve the issue.

If you own a device where such a setting solves the issue, I would appreciate if you can send me details on how you could solve it step by step to add a step by step guideline for other people facing the same problem (maybe even with screenshots if possible).