shankari
commented
5 years ago this is a cordova app, so each plugin that we choose to include can have permissions, in addition to the permissions that the native plugins that I wrote. So let's start with a list of all permissions, figure out the plugins that add them (and whether they are really necessary), and classify them into runtime versus compile time.
This is the full list of permissions.
$ grep "uses-permission" platforms/android/AndroidManifest.xml
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.GET_ACCOUNTS" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.RECEIVE_BOOT_COMPLETED" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.MANAGE_ACCOUNTS" />
<uses-permission android:name="com.google.android.gms.permission.ACTIVITY_RECOGNITION" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.READ_SYNC_SETTINGS" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.WRITE_SYNC_SETTINGS" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.AUTHENTICATE_ACCOUNTS" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.CAMERA" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.FLASHLIGHT" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.WAKE_LOCK" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.VIBRATE" />
<uses-permission android:name="com.google.android.c2dm.permission.RECEIVE" />
<uses-permission android:name="${applicationId}.permission.C2D_MESSAGE" />
<uses-permission android:name="${applicationId}.permission.PushHandlerActivity" />
deepalics0044
Supporting apk version 26 requires us to switch to dynamic permissions. This is not a huge issue since we already support dynamic permissions on iOS, but it does require non-trivial implementation and testing time.
It is not a coincidence that the last update of e-mission and emTripLog were updated in Oct 2019.
However, as other groups, notably @jf87 @deepalics0044 @PatGendre want to deploy custom apps to the store, we need to fix this pretty soon.