Following the changes posted here, the getNetworkType method is deprecated from Android R and onwards.
When trying to use this method in a R compiled application, results in the following exception being thrown:
java.lang.SecurityException: getDataNetworkTypeForSubscriber: uid 10225 does not have android.permission.READ_PHONE_STATE.
at android.os.Parcel.createExceptionOrNull(Parcel.java:2285)
at android.os.Parcel.createException(Parcel.java:2269)
at android.os.Parcel.readException(Parcel.java:2252)
at android.os.Parcel.readException(Parcel.java:2194)
at com.android.internal.telephony.ITelephony$Stub$Proxy.getNetworkTypeForSubscriber(ITelephony.java:7565)
at android.telephony.TelephonyManager.getNetworkType(TelephonyManager.java:2964)
at android.telephony.TelephonyManager.getNetworkType(TelephonyManager.java:2928)
at com.ironsource.environment.ConnectivityService.getCellularNetworkType(ConnectivityService.java:197)
at com.ironsource.sdk.service.DeviceData.updateWithConnectionInfo(DeviceData.java:98)
at com.ironsource.sdk.service.DeviceData.fetchMutableData(DeviceData.java:54)
at com.ironsource.sdk.service.TokenService.collectDataFromDevice(TokenService.java:120)
at com.ironsource.sdk.service.TokenService.getRawToken(TokenService.java:177)
at com.ironsource.sdk.service.TokenService.getToken(TokenService.java:166)
at com.ironsource.sdk.IronSourceNetwork.getToken(IronSourceNetwork.java:183)
This is fine and is expected according to the documentation. If I compile the application to any version before Android R, the exception doesn't show.
This exception indicates that I need to request the android.permission.READ_PHONE_STATE permission.
I wanted to know if there is a way to get the network type with any other API that does NOT require this permission (as this permission's level is dangerous and I would rather not ask the user for it).