Work around for Device admin api does not own profile

I was working my way through the device admin api, and while invoking the setPermissionGrantState function on the DevicePolicyManager I got

Unable to start receiver com.xx.admin.receivers.AdminReceiver: java.lang.SecurityException: Admin ComponentInfo{com.xx/com.xx.admin.receivers.AdminReceiver} does not own the profile.

I understand that there are certain functions that can be only run by device/profile owners. Further more that NFC provisioning and dpm command is the way through it. But this is hardly the way I want to proceed when I distribute my app. Is there any way I can automate this authorization by requesting the user to permit my app with a profile ownership with/without root.

Here is my receiver

class AdminReceiver : DeviceAdminReceiver() {

    var manager: DevicePolicyManager? = null
    override fun onEnabled(context: Context?, intent: Intent?) {
        super.onEnabled(context, intent)
        manager = getManager(context)
        manager!!.setPermissionGrantState(getComponentName(context!!)
                , "com.abc.app"
                , Manifest.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE
                , DevicePolicyManager.PERMISSION_GRANT_STATE_DENIED)


    }

    fun getComponentName(context: Context): ComponentName {
        return ComponentName(context.applicationContext, AdminReceiver::class.java)
    }

}