[Health 10.2.0] Health connect permissions don't match what is asked

[louisdeveseleer]

Device / Emulator and OS

• Device: Pixel 7
• OS: Android 14

Describe the bug

The permissions appearing in Health connect do not match the list of permissions passed to the plugin method requestAuthorization.

Dart:

  final types = [
    HealthDataType.WEIGHT,
    HealthDataType.HEIGHT,
    HealthDataType.WORKOUT,
    HealthDataType.ACTIVE_ENERGY_BURNED,
  ];
  final permissions = [
    HealthDataAccess.WRITE,
    HealthDataAccess.WRITE,
    HealthDataAccess.WRITE,
    HealthDataAccess.WRITE,
  ];
  await health.requestAuthorization(types, permissions: permissions);

Android Manifest:

    <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.health.WRITE_HEIGHT"/>
    <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.health.WRITE_WEIGHT"/>
    <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.health.WRITE_EXERCISE"/>
    <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.health.WRITE_ACTIVE_CALORIES_BURNED"/>

Health connect screen:

The "write" permissions in health connect do not include the ones that were requested, and the "read" permissions include all of them, although none was requested.

As a consequence:

• the necessary permissions are not enabled, which leads to failed writes to health connect.
• the method hasPermissions always returns false.

To Reproduce

Ask for Write-only permissions.

Expected behavior

For Health connect to list the exact permissions requested, no more, no less.

Actual behavior

The permissions requested do not appear, and others that were not requested do appear.

Flutter doctor

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[✓] Android toolchain - develop for Android devices (Android SDK version 34.0.0)
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[✓] Connected device (4 available)
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• No issues found!

[louisdeveseleer]

After further investigation, I was able to narrow down the precise issues:

• On the device Pixel 7 (Android 14, sdk 34), there are extra permissions asked (which lead to hasPermission returning false), but we can still write data as needed.
• On an older device (Nokia 6.1, Android 10, sdk 29), the Health plugin version 10.2.0 fails to write any data. After many attempts to make things work, I had to revert to Health version 9.0.1 to be able to restore the data writes.

[harryandroiddev]

This is because you are using workout , which under the hood request for total calories burned and distance .

This is the plugin native code for android

   // Workout also needs distance and total energy burned too
            if (typeKey == WORKOUT) {
                if (access == 0) {
                    permList.addAll(
                        listOf(
                            HealthPermission.getReadPermission(
                                DistanceRecord::class
                            ),
                            HealthPermission.getReadPermission(
                                TotalCaloriesBurnedRecord::class
                            ),
                        ),
                    )
                } else {
                    permList.addAll(
                        listOf(
                            HealthPermission.getReadPermission(
                                DistanceRecord::class
                            ),
                            HealthPermission.getReadPermission(
                                TotalCaloriesBurnedRecord::class
                            ),
                            HealthPermission.getWritePermission(
                                DistanceRecord::class
                            ),
                            HealthPermission.getWritePermission(
                                TotalCaloriesBurnedRecord::class
                            ),
                        ),
                    )
                }
            }

[louisdeveseleer]

@harryandroiddev Thanks for sharing your insight!
Do you know why "Distance" is automatically added for Workout, considering that many workout types don't involve any distance?