Re: Making default permissions on Android more restrictive

[Po Lu]

Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com> writes:

> BTW, I think the documentation should be rewritten to focus on recent
> Android first, and only then mention what happens for legacy versions.
>
> Assuming I'm understand this right, perhaps something like:
>
>    • On reasonably recent versions of Android (6.0 and later), Emacs
>      only receives the following permissions upon installation:
>
>         − ‘android.permission.VIBRATE’
>         − ‘android.permission.ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE’
>         − ‘android.permission.INTERNET’
>         − ‘android.permission.SET_WALLPAPER’
>         − ‘android.permission.NFC’
>         − ‘android.permission.TRANSMIT_IR’
>         − ‘android.permission.WAKE_LOCK’
>
>      Other permissions must be granted by the user through the system
>      settings application.  This is the list of capabilities:
>
>      [long list of capabilities elided]
>
>    • On Android 5.1 and earlier, Emacs automatically gets the
>      above list of permissions when it is installed.

Fine by me, I'll make this change.