Asking the User for Permission
You wouldn’t let your next-door neighbor store holiday decorations in your shed without permission, would you? Probably not. Android is no different. Performing some actions on a user’s Android device requires permission, as explained in the following sections.
Seeing how permissions affect the user experience
When a user installs an application from the Google Play Store, the application’s manifest file is inspected for required permissions. Anytime your application needs access to sensitive components (such as external storage, the Internet, or device information), the user is notified and decides whether to continue the installation.
If your application doesn’t need a permission, yank it. The fewer number of permissions your application requests, the more likely the user is to install it.
Setting requested permissions in the AndroidManifest.xml file
When you need to request permissions, add them to the AndroidManifest.xml
file in your project. You need to add the following permissions to the Task Reminder application:
android.permission.RECEIVE_BOOT_COMPLETED
: Allows the application to know when the ...
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