Where can I get a list of more Android permissions? (other than ...)

I'm trying to get a list of valid Android permissions. I know the 'official' ones at http://developer.android.com/reference/android/Manifest.permission.html but it seems there are more out there. Please do not answer by just repeating that link.

For example

android.permission.READ_SETTINGS
android.permission.ACCESS_LOCATION
android.permission.ACCESS_GPS

com.android.vending.CHECK_LICENSE

com.android.browser.permission.READ_HISTORY_BOOKMARKS
com.android.browser.permission.WRITE_HISTORY_BOOKMARKS

com.google.android.googleapps.permission.GOOGLE_AUTH
com.google.android.googleapps.permiss开发者_Go百科ion.GOOGLE_AUTH.OTHER_SERVICES

com.google.android.c2dm.permission.RECEIVE

Where can I get such a list? Where do I get a description for these permissions?

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adb shell pm list permissions -s

This might be what you're looking for.

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There is no such thing as a comprehensive "list" for all permissions. New permissions can be defined by any application that wants to enforce its own: https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/security/security.html#declaring.

The Manifest.permission class lists the "system" permissions, and you're already aware of those. The other things you've listed aren't system permissions, but rather are specific to certain apps, and or are old names (ACCESS_LOCATION and ACCESS_GPS were pre 1.0 names, for example).

A grep for something like <permission android:name= in the source would reveal all the included app permissions (for the open source apps), but in general you should stick to the documented permission names.

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Use the following snippet to get all the permissions declared on your device:

Context context = this;
PackageManager pm = context.getPackageManager();
CharSequence csPermissionGroupLabel;
CharSequence csPermissionLabel;

List<PermissionGroupInfo> lstGroups = pm.getAllPermissionGroups(0);
for (PermissionGroupInfo pgi : lstGroups) {
    csPermissionGroupLabel = pgi.loadLabel(pm);
    Log.e("perm", pgi.name + ": " + csPermissionGroupLabel.toString());

    try {
        List<PermissionInfo> lstPermissions = pm.queryPermissionsByGroup(pgi.name, 0);
        for (PermissionInfo pi : lstPermissions) {
            csPermissionLabel = pi.loadLabel(pm);
            Log.e("perm", "   " + pi.name + ": " + csPermissionLabel.toString());
        }
    } catch (Exception ex) {
        ex.printStackTrace();
    }
}

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To list all permissions on your phone

adb shell pm list permissions -g

The -s argument is a short summary

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Where can I get such a list?

You can't.

Where do I get a description for these permissions?

Wherever those permissions are documented. In many cases, they are undocumented and therefore should not be used.

For example, your first three were removed from Android a couple of years ago, IIRC. The last one is documented in the C2DM documentation.

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There are definitely "more permissions out there". The reference you've linked is just the "official list" – and even for that, it's quite incomplete. I've researched for existing permissions, what they are for, and what impacts they have on the end-user, for about a year now – and really wonder how developers find what they need. Good guessing seems to be part of it, as for many permissions a Google search just yielded content of several apps' Manifest files ("uses …").

Added to that, next to the "official permissions" (or rather "Android core permissions"), each developer can define its own for his app (as Charlie Collins already pointed out in his answer).

During my research, I've setup a list with my findings from several sources (which I listed along) – adding any explanations I could find. This list is rather focused on the end-user, but still might prove helpful to developers. You can find it at my site: Android Permissions explained – bi-lingual (English and German). The list includes the "core permission" as well as some selected app-specific ones (mostly those one encounters more frequently: declared by Google apps, or popular apps like Tasker and K-9 Mail). Again, this of course is far from being complete – a "complete list" being as likely as a unicorn (the day published it most likely would be outdated already).

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Edit:

As it was asked for in another comment: If you installed a package with a new permission not yet covered by any list, and you want to know the "technical name" of that new permission, you can retrieve that information from your device via ADB:

adb shell dumpsys package com.foo.bar

(of course replace com.foo.bar with the name of the package in question). In the output, skip down to the line grantedPermissions:. Below that come the permissions in "full notation", e.g. android.permission.INTERNET, one per line. To make that easier:

adb shell dumpsys package com.foo.bar |egrep -A99999 "grantedPermissions:"

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You can get all permissions on a device using the following code:

public static List<PermissionInfo> getAllPermissions(Context context) {
    PackageManager pm = context.getPackageManager();
    List<PermissionInfo> permissions = new ArrayList<>();

    List<PermissionGroupInfo> groupList = pm.getAllPermissionGroups(0);
    groupList.add(null); // ungrouped permissions

    for (PermissionGroupInfo permissionGroup : groupList) {
        String name = permissionGroup == null ? null : permissionGroup.name;
        try {
            permissions.addAll(pm.queryPermissionsByGroup(name, 0));
        } catch (PackageManager.NameNotFoundException ignored) {
        }
    }

    return permissions;
}

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I know this is a late post, but this is more of a reference for people in the future who have the same question.

Here is a list of every single built-in permission in Android 7.0 (Nougat). However, it is possible to create your own permissions, so that list doesn't contain all of them out there.

Hope that helps :)

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It depends on the Android version. The reason is that starting from some Android version, Google noticed (or just allowed) that OEMs would be able to change which permission belongs to which permission group. This occurs at least for some Chinese OEMs (not the first time they break behavior, as shown here), according to what I was told by Google on the issue tracker. They can even change it between simple updates to the OS.

So, here's what you have today:

• Starting from Android 12 (API 31), you can use the new getPlatformPermissionsForGroup function.
• On Android versions older than Android 10 (API 29 and below), you could use queryPermissionsByGroup.
• On Android 10-11 (API 29-30), here are the methods:

1. The normal API (and the adb command of ./adb shell pm list permissions -s) won't work properly. It will put plenty of permissions into "UNDEFINED" group. The reason is that Google said it might be different across devices and OEMs
2. You can check on Android source code of these versions and hope that most devices use what's there. It used to be here, but the link is dead now. I think this one can give you the same information though (but you need to check on which Android version it's used for).
3. Another way to handle this is to make your own sample POC to check for each permission - which permission group it belongs to. You will do it by having all permissions declared in the manifest (get from the code below), and then request a bunch of permissions. If you get a single dialog, it means that what you've chosen belong to a single group, and you can continue testing more permissions into it and see if they belong too. If not, at least one of them belong to another group.

To filter by the permissions that are only in the system and/or of Android itself, you could use a condition that the package name of the permission has to start with "android" or that the permission group name should start with "android.permission-group." or that the protection level of the permission is PermissionInfo.PROTECTION_SIGNATURE . It depends on what you wish to filter by.

So, a simple function to list them for all Android versions:

enum class PermissionGroup constructor(@param:Permission @field:Permission val permissions: Array<String>) {
    //based on https://developer.android.com/reference/android/Manifest.permission_group.html, https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/permissions/requesting.html https://developer.android.com/reference/android/Manifest.permission
    // get all permissions and groups here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/51156191/878126 https://cs.android.com/android/platform/superproject/+/master:frameworks/base/services/core/java/com/android/server/pm/permission/DefaultPermissionGrantPolicy.java
    CALENDAR(arrayOf(permission.READ_CALENDAR, permission.WRITE_CALENDAR)),
    CAMERA(arrayOf(permission.CAMERA)),
    CONTACTS(arrayOf(permission.READ_CONTACTS, permission.WRITE_CONTACTS, permission.GET_ACCOUNTS)),
    LOCATION(sequenceOf(permission.ACCESS_COARSE_LOCATION, permission.ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION, if (VERSION.SDK_INT >= VERSION_CODES.Q) permission.ACCESS_BACKGROUND_LOCATION else null)
            .filterNotNull().asIterable().toList().toTypedArray()),
    MICROPHONE(arrayOf(permission.RECORD_AUDIO, "android.permission.RECORD_BACKGROUND_AUDIO")),
    PHONE(sequenceOf(permission.READ_PHONE_STATE, if (VERSION.SDK_INT >= VERSION_CODES.P) permission.ACCEPT_HANDOVER else null,
            permission.CALL_PHONE, permission.ADD_VOICEMAIL, permission.USE_SIP,
            if (VERSION.SDK_INT >= VERSION_CODES.O) permission.ANSWER_PHONE_CALLS else null, if (VERSION.SDK_INT < VERSION_CODES.P) permission.READ_CALL_LOG else null,
            if (VERSION.SDK_INT < VERSION_CODES.P) permission.WRITE_CALL_LOG else null, if (VERSION.SDK_INT < VERSION_CODES.P) permission.PROCESS_OUTGOING_CALLS else null,
            if (VERSION.SDK_INT >= VERSION_CODES.O) permission.READ_PHONE_NUMBERS else null).filterNotNull().asIterable().toList().toTypedArray()),
    SENSORS(sequenceOf(if (VERSION.SDK_INT >= VERSION_CODES.KITKAT_WATCH) permission.BODY_SENSORS else null,
            if (VERSION.SDK_INT >= VERSION_CODES.M && VERSION.SDK_INT < VERSION_CODES.P) permission.USE_FINGERPRINT else null, if (VERSION.SDK_INT >= VERSION_CODES.P) permission.USE_BIOMETRIC else null)
            .filterNotNull().asIterable().toList().toTypedArray()),
    SMS(sequenceOf(permission.SEND_SMS, permission.RECEIVE_SMS, permission.READ_SMS, permission.RECEIVE_WAP_PUSH, permission.RECEIVE_MMS,"android.permission.READ_CELL_BROADCASTS")
            .filterNotNull().asIterable().toList().toTypedArray()),

    STORAGE(sequenceOf(permission.READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE, permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE, if (VERSION.SDK_INT >= VERSION_CODES.Q) permission.ACCESS_MEDIA_LOCATION else null)
            .filterNotNull().asIterable().toList().toTypedArray()),

    CALL_LOG(if (VERSION.SDK_INT >= VERSION_CODES.P)
        arrayOf(permission.READ_CALL_LOG, permission.WRITE_CALL_LOG, permission.PROCESS_OUTGOING_CALLS)
    else emptyArray()),

    ACTIVITY_RECOGNITION(if (VERSION.SDK_INT >= VERSION_CODES.Q) arrayOf(permission.ACTIVITY_RECOGNITION) else emptyArray()),

    NEARBY_DEVICES(if (VERSION.SDK_INT >= VERSION_CODES.S) arrayOf(permission.BLUETOOTH_CONNECT, permission.BLUETOOTH_ADVERTISE, permission.UWB_RANGING, permission.BLUETOOTH_SCAN) else emptyArray())
    ;

    @TargetApi(VERSION_CODES.S)
    @StringDef(permission.READ_CALENDAR, permission.WRITE_CALENDAR, permission.CAMERA, permission.READ_CONTACTS, permission.WRITE_CONTACTS,
            permission.GET_ACCOUNTS, permission.ACCEPT_HANDOVER, permission.ACCESS_COARSE_LOCATION, permission.ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION, permission.RECORD_AUDIO,
            permission.USE_BIOMETRIC, permission.READ_PHONE_STATE, permission.CALL_PHONE, permission.READ_CALL_LOG, permission.WRITE_CALL_LOG, permission.ADD_VOICEMAIL,
            permission.USE_SIP, permission.PROCESS_OUTGOING_CALLS, permission.BODY_SENSORS, permission.SEND_SMS, permission.RECEIVE_SMS, permission.READ_SMS, permission.RECEIVE_WAP_PUSH,
            permission.RECEIVE_MMS, permission.READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE, permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE, permission.ANSWER_PHONE_CALLS, permission.ACTIVITY_RECOGNITION,
            permission.ACCESS_BACKGROUND_LOCATION, permission.ACCESS_MEDIA_LOCATION, "android.permission.RECORD_BACKGROUND_AUDIO",
            permission.BLUETOOTH_CONNECT, permission.BLUETOOTH_ADVERTISE, permission.UWB_RANGING, permission.BLUETOOTH_SCAN,"android.permission.READ_CELL_BROADCASTS"
    )
    @Retention(AnnotationRetention.SOURCE)
    annotation class Permission
}

And finding them:

fun checkPermissions() {
    var permissionsCount = 0
    when {
        Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= Build.VERSION_CODES.S -> {
            val permissionGroups = packageManager.getAllPermissionGroups(0)
            var permissionsGroupsLeft = permissionGroups.size
            permissionGroups.forEach { permissionGroup: PermissionGroupInfo ->
                val permissionGroupName = permissionGroup.name
                if (!permissionGroupName.startsWith("android.permission-group.")) {
                    if (--permissionsGroupsLeft == 0) {
                        Log.d("AppLog", "total permissions (of all permissions groups) count:$permissionsCount")
                    }
                    return@forEach
                }
                packageManager.getPlatformPermissionsForGroup(permissionGroupName, mainExecutor) { groupPermissions ->
                    if (groupPermissions.isNotEmpty()) {
                        Log.d("AppLog", "permissionGroup:$permissionGroupName")
                        groupPermissions.forEach { permissionName ->
                            Log.d("AppLog", "\t\t$permissionName")
                            ++permissionsCount
                        }
                    }
                    if (--permissionsGroupsLeft == 0) {
                        Log.d("AppLog", "total permissions (of all permissions groups) count:$permissionsCount")
                    }
                }
            }
            return
        }
        Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= Build.VERSION_CODES.Q -> {
            Log.d("AppLog", "cannot use API to query permissions, so guessing it is similar to what we have found about it:")
            PermissionGroup.values().forEach { permissionGroup ->
                val permissions = permissionGroup.permissions
                if (permissions.isEmpty())
                    return@forEach
                Log.d("AppLog", "permissionGroup:${permissionGroup.name}")
                permissions.forEach { permissionName ->
                    Log.d("AppLog", "\t\t${permissionName}")
                    ++permissionsCount
                }
            }
        }
        else -> {
            val allPermissionGroups = packageManager.getAllPermissionGroups(0)
            allPermissionGroups.forEach { permissionGroup ->
                val permissionGroupName = permissionGroup.name
                if (!permissionGroupName.startsWith("android.permission-group."))
                    return@forEach
                val groupPermissions = packageManager.queryPermissionsByGroup(permissionGroupName, 0)
                if (groupPermissions.isEmpty())
                    return@forEach
                Log.d("AppLog", "permissionGroup:$permissionGroupName")
                for (permission in groupPermissions) {
                    val permissionName = permission.name
                    Log.d("AppLog", "\t\t${permissionName}")
                    ++permissionsCount
                }
            }
        }
    }
    Log.d("AppLog", "total permissions (of all permissions groups) count:$permissionsCount")
}

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A short answer without going in detail to get all permissions:

• adb shell pm list permissions lists permissions that comes with installed apps (false or true)
• adb shell cmd appops get <package> lists permissions on user level per app (allow, deny, ignore)
• adb shell dumpsys <package> lists permissions per app on system level (grant and revoke)