Manifest.permission

Allows read/write access to the "properties" table in the checkin database, to change values that get uploaded.

Not for use by third-party applications.

Allows an app to access approximate location derived from network location sources such as cell towers and Wi-Fi.

Allows an app to access precise location from location sources such as GPS, cell towers, and Wi-Fi.

Allows an application to access extra location provider commands

Allows an application to create mock location providers for testing

Allows applications to access information about networks

Allows an application to use SurfaceFlinger's low level features.

Not for use by third-party applications.

Allows applications to access information about Wi-Fi networks

Allows applications to call into AccountAuthenticators.

Not for use by third-party applications.

Allows an application to add voicemails into the system.

Allows an application to act as an AccountAuthenticator for the AccountManager

Allows an application to collect battery statistics

Must be required by an AccessibilityService , to ensure that only the system can bind to it.

Allows an application to tell the AppWidget service which application can access AppWidget's data. The normal user flow is that a user picks an AppWidget to go into a particular host, thereby giving that host application access to the private data from the AppWidget app. An application that has this permission should honor that contract.

Not for use by third-party applications.

Must be required by device administration receiver, to ensure that only the system can interact with it.

Must be required by an InputMethodService , to ensure that only the system can bind to it.

Must be required by a HostApduService or OffHostApduService to ensure that only the system can bind to it.

Must be required by an NotificationListenerService , to ensure that only the system can bind to it.

Must be required by a PrintService , to ensure that only the system can bind to it.

Must be required by a RemoteViewsService , to ensure that only the system can bind to it.

Must be required by a TextService (e.g. SpellCheckerService) to ensure that only the system can bind to it.

Must be required by a VpnService , to ensure that only the system can bind to it.

Must be required by a WallpaperService , to ensure that only the system can bind to it.

Allows applications to connect to paired bluetooth devices

Allows applications to discover and pair bluetooth devices

Allows applications to pair bluetooth devices without user interaction. This is not available to third party applications.

Allows an application to access data from sensors that the user uses to measure what is happening inside his/her body, such as heart rate.

Required to be able to disable the device (very dangerous!).

Not for use by third-party applications..

Allows an application to broadcast a notification that an application package has been removed.

Not for use by third-party applications.

Allows an application to broadcast an SMS receipt notification.

Not for use by third-party applications.

Allows an application to broadcast sticky intents. These are broadcasts whose data is held by the system after being finished, so that clients can quickly retrieve that data without having to wait for the next broadcast.

Allows an application to broadcast a WAP PUSH receipt notification.

Not for use by third-party applications.

Allows an application to initiate a phone call without going through the Dialer user interface for the user to confirm the call being placed.

Allows an application to call any phone number, including emergency numbers, without going through the Dialer user interface for the user to confirm the call being placed.

Not for use by third-party applications.

Required to be able to access the camera device.

This will automatically enforce the <uses-feature> manifest element for all camera features. If you do not require all camera features or can properly operate if a camera is not available, then you must modify your manifest as appropriate in order to install on devices that don't support all camera features.

Allows an application to capture audio output.

Not for use by third-party applications.

Allows an application to capture secure video output.

Not for use by third-party applications.

Allows an application to capture video output.

Not for use by third-party applications.

Allows an application to change whether an application component (other than its own) is enabled or not.

Not for use by third-party applications.

Allows an application to modify the current configuration, such as locale.

Allows applications to change network connectivity state

Allows applications to enter Wi-Fi Multicast mode

Allows applications to change Wi-Fi connectivity state

Allows an application to clear the caches of all installed applications on the device.

Allows an application to clear user data.

Not for use by third-party applications.

Allows enabling/disabling location update notifications from the radio.

Not for use by third-party applications.

Allows an application to delete cache files.

Not for use by third-party applications.

Allows an application to delete packages.

Not for use by third-party applications.

Allows low-level access to power management.

Not for use by third-party applications.

Allows applications to RW to diagnostic resources.

Not for use by third-party applications.

Allows applications to disable the keyguard

Allows an application to retrieve state dump information from system services.

Not for use by third-party applications.

Allows an application to expand or collapse the status bar.

Run as a manufacturer test application, running as the root user. Only available when the device is running in manufacturer test mode.

Not for use by third-party applications.

Allows access to the flashlight

Allows an application to force a BACK operation on whatever is the top activity.

Not for use by third-party applications.

Allows access to the list of accounts in the Accounts Service

Allows an application to find out the space used by any package.

Allows an application to get information about the currently or recently running tasks.

Allows an application to retrieve private information about the current top activity, such as any assist context it can provide.

Not for use by third-party applications.

This permission can be used on content providers to allow the global search system to access their data. Typically it used when the provider has some permissions protecting it (which global search would not be expected to hold), and added as a read-only permission to the path in the provider where global search queries are performed. This permission can not be held by regular applications; it is used by applications to protect themselves from everyone else besides global search.

Allows access to hardware peripherals. Intended only for hardware testing.

Not for use by third-party applications.

Allows an application to inject user events (keys, touch, trackball) into the event stream and deliver them to ANY window. Without this permission, you can only deliver events to windows in your own process.

Not for use by third-party applications.

Allows an application to install a location provider into the Location Manager.

Not for use by third-party applications.

Allows an application to install packages.

Not for use by third-party applications.

Allows an application to install a shortcut in Launcher

Allows an application to open windows that are for use by parts of the system user interface.

Not for use by third-party applications.

Allows applications to open network sockets.

Allows an application to call killBackgroundProcesses(String) .

Allows an application to use location features in hardware, such as the geofencing api.

Not for use by third-party applications.

Allows an application to manage the list of accounts in the AccountManager

Allows an application to manage (create, destroy, Z-order) application tokens in the window manager.

Not for use by third-party applications.

Allows an application to manage access to documents, usually as part of a document picker.

Not for use by third-party applications.

Allows an application to know what content is playing and control its playback.

Not for use by third-party applications due to privacy of media consumption

Allows an application to modify global audio settings

Allows modification of the telephony state - power on, mmi, etc. Does not include placing calls.

Not for use by third-party applications.

Allows formatting file systems for removable storage.

Not for use by third-party applications.

Allows mounting and unmounting file systems for removable storage.

Not for use by third-party applications.

Allows applications to perform I/O operations over NFC

Allows an application to modify or abort outgoing calls.

Allows an application to read the user's calendar data.

Allows an application to read the user's call log.

Note: If your app uses the READ_CONTACTS permission and both your minSdkVersion and targetSdkVersion values are set to 15 or lower, the system implicitly grants your app this permission. If you don't need this permission, be sure your targetSdkVersion is 16 or higher.

Allows an application to read the user's contacts data.

Allows an application to read from external storage.

Any app that declares the WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE permission is implicitly granted this permission.

This permission is enforced starting in API level 19. Before API level 19, this permission is not enforced and all apps still have access to read from external storage. You can test your app with the permission enforced by enabling Protect USB storage under Developer options in the Settings app on a device running Android 4.1 or higher.

Also starting in API level 19, this permission is not required to read/write files in your application-specific directories returned by getExternalFilesDir(String) and getExternalCacheDir() .

Note: If both your minSdkVersion and targetSdkVersion values are set to 3 or lower, the system implicitly grants your app this permission. If you don't need this permission, be sure your targetSdkVersion is 4 or higher.

Allows an application to take screen shots and more generally get access to the frame buffer data.

Not for use by third-party applications.

Allows an application to read (but not write) the user's browsing history and bookmarks.

Allows an application to retrieve the current state of keys and switches.

Not for use by third-party applications.

Allows an application to read the low-level system log files.

Not for use by third-party applications, because Log entries can contain the user's private information.

Allows read only access to phone state.

Note: If both your minSdkVersion and targetSdkVersion values are set to 3 or lower, the system implicitly grants your app this permission. If you don't need this permission, be sure your targetSdkVersion is 4 or higher.

Allows an application to read the user's personal profile data.

Allows an application to read SMS messages.

Allows an application to read from the user's social stream.

Allows applications to read the sync settings

Allows applications to read the sync stats

Allows an application to read the user dictionary. This should really only be required by an IME, or a dictionary editor like the Settings app.

Required to be able to reboot the device.

Not for use by third-party applications.

Allows an application to receive the ACTION_BOOT_COMPLETED that is broadcast after the system finishes booting. If you don't request this permission, you will not receive the broadcast at that time. Though holding this permission does not have any security implications, it can have a negative impact on the user experience by increasing the amount of time it takes the system to start and allowing applications to have themselves running without the user being aware of them. As such, you must explicitly declare your use of this facility to make that visible to the user.

Allows an application to monitor incoming MMS messages, to record or perform processing on them.

Allows an application to monitor incoming SMS messages, to record or perform processing on them.

Allows an application to monitor incoming WAP push messages.

Allows an application to record audio

Allows an application to change the Z-order of tasks

Allows an application (Phone) to send a request to other applications to handle the respond-via-message action during incoming calls.

Not for use by third-party applications.

Allows an application to send SMS messages.

Allows an application to watch and control how activities are started globally in the system. Only for is in debugging (usually the monkey command).

Not for use by third-party applications.

Allows an application to broadcast an Intent to set an alarm for the user.

Allows an application to control whether activities are immediately finished when put in the background.

Not for use by third-party applications.

Modify the global animation scaling factor.

Not for use by third-party applications.

Configure an application for debugging.

Not for use by third-party applications.

Allows low-level access to setting the orientation (actually rotation) of the screen.

Not for use by third-party applications.

Allows low-level access to setting the pointer speed.

Not for use by third-party applications.

Allows an application to set the maximum number of (not needed) application processes that can be running.

Not for use by third-party applications.

Allows applications to set the system time.

Not for use by third-party applications.

Allows applications to set the system time zone

Allows applications to set the wallpaper

Allows applications to set the wallpaper hints

Allow an application to request that a signal be sent to all persistent processes.

Not for use by third-party applications.

Allows an application to open, close, or disable the status bar and its icons.

Not for use by third-party applications.

Allows an application to allow access the subscribed feeds ContentProvider.

Allows an application to open windows using the type TYPE_SYSTEM_ALERT , shown on top of all other applications. Very few applications should use this permission; these windows are intended for system-level interaction with the user.

Allows using the device's IR transmitter, if available

Allows an application to uninstall a shortcut in Launcher

Allows an application to update device statistics.

Not for use by third-party applications.

Allows an application to request authtokens from the AccountManager

Allows an application to use SIP service

Allows access to the vibrator

Allows using PowerManager WakeLocks to keep processor from sleeping or screen from dimming

Allows applications to write the apn settings.

Not for use by third-party applications.

Allows an application to write (but not read) the user's calendar data.

Allows an application to write (but not read) the user's contacts data.

Note: If your app uses the WRITE_CONTACTS permission and both your minSdkVersion and targetSdkVersion values are set to 15 or lower, the system implicitly grants your app this permission. If you don't need this permission, be sure your targetSdkVersion is 16 or higher.

Allows an application to write (but not read) the user's contacts data.

Allows an application to write to external storage.

Note: If both your minSdkVersion and targetSdkVersion values are set to 3 or lower, the system implicitly grants your app this permission. If you don't need this permission, be sure your targetSdkVersion is 4 or higher.

Starting in API level 19, this permission is not required to read/write files in your application-specific directories returned by getExternalFilesDir(String) and getExternalCacheDir() .

Allows an application to modify the Google service map.

Not for use by third-party applications.

Allows an application to write (but not read) the user's browsing history and bookmarks.

Allows an application to write (but not read) the user's personal profile data.

Allows an application to read or write the secure system settings.

Not for use by third-party applications.

Allows an application to read or write the system settings.

Allows an application to write SMS messages.

Allows an application to write (but not read) the user's social stream data.

Allows applications to write the sync settings

Allows an application to write to the user dictionary.