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Ask HN: Specificity of app permission detection in Google Play

1 pointsby quambenealmost 3 years ago
Google is currently contacting developers to remove unnecessary permissions from your app manifest or declare why it is needed.<p>Specifically, it&#x27;s about &quot;powerful&quot; permissions like QUERY_ALL_PACKAGES or REQUEST_INSTALL_PACKAGES.<p>The request in itself is understandable and reasonable.<p>However, the automated detection of these permissions doesn&#x27;t seem to work that well (for me), leading to false positives in my case.<p>Both permissions were detected in one of my apps, although one was never used and the other was removed in time. Still, I got a warning by email after the permission was already removed.<p>Anybody has similar experiences here?

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