Escalating Normal Permissions

impishparadox

Are there plans on escalating any further normal permissions to dangerous or development like you've done with android.permission.INTERNET to make it revokable by the user?

I'd like to have the ability to revoke android.permission.QUERY_ALL_PACKAGES, which allows an app to view installed packages, or android.permission.ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE, which allows an app to view which networks exist (don't think this is necessary for an app to know this to use the internet).

unwat

impishparadox

I believe they're looking in to a way to restrict the package thing. The internet thing is harder since some apps want to know what kind if internet you're on to save data.

impishparadox

unwat

You're correct. I found this GitHub issue that plans on addressing this.

As for the internet permission, that is a fair reason. But I just like the idea of revoking every single permission, including normal ones, and enabling only what is necessary for the app to function properly for the most part.