How to grant MODIFY_PHONE_STATE permission for apps ran on Gingerbread

Question

I write an application that attempts to modify phone call state. It works well on Android 2.2 or less, but throw an exception on Android 2.3 because of the lack of permissio

Answer 1

If your application for Gingerbread is running on a tablet and there is no phone, then this is expected behavior. You'll need to make the telephony related permissions in your manifest non-mandatory to run on tablets.

Try this in your manifest:

Of course, I'm making a big assumption about the tablet. You can also see the Android reference here.