Cordova adds unwanted permission to AndroidManifest.xml when building from CLI

Question

I use CLI to build my Cordova app, and I have added the Media plugin.

\'cordova build\' automatically adds the android.permission.RECORD_AUDIO to my AndroidManifest.

Answer 1

I have tried the suggestions above (from QuickFix and leuk98743) but the manifest file kept getting re-generated. So I created a hook to modify the manifest file during the build.

1. Add the content below into a file in your project: hooks/after_prepare/030_remove_permissions.js
2. If you're on Linux, make that file executable.
3. Modify the file to set the permissions you want to remove. There are 3 listed in my example but you should add/remove as appropriate.

#!/usr/bin/env node
//
// This hook removes specific permissions from the AndroidManifest.xml
// The AndroidManifest is re-generated during the prepare stage,
// so this must be run on the "after_prepare" hook.
//


// Configure the permissions to be forcefully removed.
// NOTE: These permissions will be removed regardless of how many plugins
//       require the permission. You can check the permission is only required
//       by the plugin you *think* needs it, by looking at the "count" shown in
//       your /plugins/android.json file.
//       If the count is more than 1, you should search through
//       the /plugins/<plugin-name>/plugin.xml files for <uses-permission> tags.

var permissionsToRemove = [ "RECORD_AUDIO", "MODIFY_AUDIO_SETTINGS", "READ_PHONE_STATE" ];


var fs = require('fs');
var path = require('path');
var rootdir = process.argv[2];
var manifestFile = path.join(rootdir, "platforms/android/AndroidManifest.xml");

fs.readFile( manifestFile, "utf8", function( err, data )
{
    if (err)
        return console.log( err );

    var result = data;
    for (var i=0; i