Re: [android-developers] Google Play adding permission requests after upload. -> Lose reach, existing users lose upgrade path

On Thursday, November 22, 2012 2:22:34 PM UTC-8, TreKing wrote:

On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 12:01 PM, JP <Joachim....@gmail.com> wrote:

There are no new features that would require any new permissions, and the target-sdk remains at 11. (min-sdk level 3)

Turns out that Google Play in its infinite wisdom added permission requests that aren't required for the app, at least not for the devices I've tested it on over the years.

Update.
I checked a number of Android Market-published APKs way back, and it appears the APK export added the "offending" permissions (WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE, READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE and READ_PHONE_STATE) for quite some time already. Only recently Android Market / Google Play seems to have picked up on these, hence the app going over the cliff for a monster amount (I figure) of devices.

After digging, that lead me to find this:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1747178/android-permissions-phone-calls-read-phone-state-and-identity
Turns out advancing to min-sdk level 4 in the manifest file resolves the issue as the permissions above are no longer added.
Buh buy, Cupcake. Well, I can live with losing G1 owners that never updated to Donut.

Would be *nice* though to have meaningful error messages in Android Market.

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