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Permission from manifest doesn't work in Android 6 I followed this above post which I made work and bring up the intent prompt for my app to draw over others. Sadly I am finding that the switch is grayed out. After some googling

I have seen that others have pointed towards screen filter services that are the culprit, except I do not have any of those installed. Also, I have seen that other apps (i.e. Facebook Messenger) are not grayed out and I can switch the permission on and off with no issues.

Am I missing something in my code to cause they permission switch to be grayed out?

EDIT: I found another post with nearly an identical issue using the same device running the same version of Android. Android "Screen Overlay Detected" message if user is trying to grant a permission when a notification is showing

tested in device Moto and Nexus 6P

More Edit: Also tested on Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge and AVD running SDK 23 with the same result

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Simple error. I had in my manifest

<uses-permission android:name="ANDROID.PERMISSION.SYSTEM_ALERT_WINDOW"/>

when it should have been 

<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.SYSTEM_ALERT_WINDOW"/>
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