Features and Permissions in Android

Features and Permissions

A permission is something an app is allowed to do 🙂

E.g. using the camera, reading location or accessing your contacts.

<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.CAMERA" />
<uses-feature android:name="android.hardware.camera" android:required="true" />

Internet Access

If your app uses e.g. web-APIs you need internet access. This can be achieved by adding android.permission.INTERNET to your manifest. In this case you need the uses-permission tag.

<manifest package="de.creatronix.sample_app"
          xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET"/>
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE"/>

INTERNET

Allows applications to open network sockets.

ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE

Allows applications to access information about networks.

Non-TLS APIs

When You have resources which do not use TLS (https but just http) you have to add

<application
        ...
        android:usesCleartextTraffic="true">
</application>

Permissions in Services

Checking Permission

import android.content.pm.PackageManager;
int uid = getCallingUid(); 
int pid = getCallingPid(); 
Log.d(LOGTAG, "Message from PID " + pid + " UID " + uid);
int perm = mContext.checkPermission("de.creatronix.my_service.MY_PERM", pid, uid); 
if (perm == PackageManager.PERMISSION_GRANTED) 
    Log.d(LOGTAG, "Granted"); 
else 
    Log.d(LOGTAG, "Denied");

Enforcing Permissions

mContext.enforceCallingPermission("de.creatronix.my_service.MY_PERM", "echoString permission not granted");

More about permissions:
https://developer.android.com/reference/android/Manifest.permission.html

Features and Permissions in Android