Changing permissions in system settings freezes app, not force closes

[roblav96]

Overview of the issue

When the app is open and a user changes any permissions in the system settings, the app then freezes instead of being force closed.

Steps to reproduce

Open your app, goto system settings, toggle a permission, go back to your app, it's frozen and needs to be manually force killed by the user. The app should be force killed by the OS when changing a permission.

System configuration

┌──────────────────┬────────────────────────────┬────────────────┬─────────────┐
│ Component        │ Current version            │ Latest version │ Information │
│ nativescript     │ 2.3.0                      │ 2.3.0          │ Up to date  │
│ tns-core-modules │ 2.3.0                      │ 2.3.0          │ Up to date  │
│ tns-android      │ 2.4.0-next-2016-10-06-1215 │ 2.3.0          │ Up to date  │
│ tns-ios          │ 2.4.0-2016-9-28-1          │ 2.3.0          │ Up to date  │
└──────────────────┴────────────────────────────┴────────────────┴─────────────┘

[ivanbuhov]

@roblav96 Could you be more specific about the steps to reproduce. Is it reproduced with a blank app? It would be helpful if you give an example of a concrete option change, which causes the app to freeze.

[Burgov]

I just ran into the same issue.

• open the app
• switch to the settings app, find your app, change a permission
• at this moment it already froze, i asserted that by having a timer emit something to the console every second, which stops the moment you tap that toggle
• go back to the app - nothing works.

Running NS 4.0