I have an application that has had only minor changes in the last couple of years. Yesterday I released a patch for Google Play and noticed that my application suddenly needs 5 new permissions:
- android.permission.ACCESS_COARSE_LOCATION
- android.permission.GET_ACCOUNTS
- android.permission.READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE maxSdkVersion = 18
- android.permission.USE_CREDENTIALS
- android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE
I did not make any changes to AndroidManifest.xml, so these 5 permissions are not listed there.
I use the Google billing library (com.android.billing) for in-app purchases. This can be automatically updated by Android Studio.
I also updated these libraries:
- com.android.support:appcompat-v7:22.1.1 → 22.2.0
- com.android.support:support-v4:22.1.1 → 22.2.0
- com.google.android.gms: play-services: 7.3.0 → 7.5.0
Does anyone know why this happened?
ANSWER UPDATE
@ ahmad-navaz is right, and his answer made me realize this. Here is a more detailed answer to my question:
The library that wanted additional permissions is Google Play Services .
In Google Play Services version 6.5 and later, you can (and probably should) determine which specific API you need, and not just import the entire package.
In my case, I just used play-services-analytics, so I changed this in my build.gradle
compile 'com.google.android.gms:play-services:7.5.0'
to that
compile 'com.google.android.gms:play-services-analytics:7.5.0'
After this change, all 5 permissions mentioned in the original question disappeared.
The following is a complete list of selected Google Apps APIs: https://developers.google.com/android/guides/setup#split
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