Removing unnecessary Android permissions

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1

Yo!

My upcoming app (that will revolutionize everything) doesn’t need all those permissions that Fuse ask for Android app by default.

Google Play says these will be asked from the user:

android.permission.ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE
android.permission.CALL_PHONE
android.permission.INTERNET
android.permission.READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE
android.permission.VIBRATE
android.permission.WAKE_LOCK
android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE

Is there a way to control which permissions are required?

I only need to be able to write to app folder and access interwebz.

2

Not really elegant (yet), but an acceptable workaround is to edit AndroidManifest.xml inside your project and run build.bat afterwards. Should work. :slight_smile:

3

Works great thanks :slight_smile:

4

How do you do this on mac ?

5

It works in the same way for both OSX and Windows. Just locate AndroidManifest.xml under the build/Android/ directory (for instance in build/Android/Preview/<appname>/app/src/main/), change it manually (standard Android docs for that are here) and then start build.bat afterwards (located under build/Android/Preview/ in this case)

6

Hi ,
I do “build” not “preview”. but I can’t find “build.bat” ?
Where I can find this ?

7

Hi basma,

the build.bat script is usually put under <project root folder> / build / Android / Release after you execute fuse build -tandroid with or without other build flags that are needed for a release build.