Thanks for your quick reply, Mark. Nonetheless, I am still wondering: Does that mean that an app stored as APK in /system/app/ can use any permission which is <= "signatureOrSystem"? Or can only permissions == "signatureOrSystem" be made use of? (the latter is definitely not the case, see below)
As I already mentioned, every app in /data/system/packages.xml which was stored in /system/app/ had NO <perms>-Block. Not a single one. And I highly doubt that preinstalled apps such as the Phone App only utilize signatureOrSystem-Permissions. For example, the android.permission.CALL_PHONE has a protectionLevel of "dangerous" and is used by the preinstalled Phone app. However, this permission is not denoted in /data/system/packages.xml for the Phone app. Hence, I suspect that any app stored in /system/app/ is granted any permission equal to or below "signatureOrSystem" level. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
