Wrong permissions at Google Play

Question

Permissions at my app\'s Google Play page are wrong. Here is my Manifest (just the permissions)

Answer 1

I found out what's wrong.

getSharedPreferences(getApplicationContext().getPackageName() + "_preferences", Context.MODE_MULTI_PROCESS);

Android Studio adds access to files because I'm using multi process shared preferences and I'm writing to them somewhere (available since API 11).

Force removing the permission by

in the app's Manifest breaks writing to Shared Prefs. So it's really needed and auto-added by Android Studio.

The second one, READ_PHONE_STATE is because of the saxrssreader library. When the library's min SDK is lower than the app's min SDK, the permission is added during build. I simply changed the library's minimum SDK to the number my app is using and the permission is gone.

That was a tricky one but everything is clear now.