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It's a rarity to see any Android app that doesn't require half a dozen different permissions. I just installed the Google Maps update and it requires 9 including the ability to read my phone call logs (??)

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The google apps are an outlier in my experience so far. They tend to ask for many indepth permissions. Most apps just want full network access (for ad's) and sometimes phone call state/sdcard access etc.

maybe on-demand permission requests would be better for many of those things, like apple ios does when an app requests your location.

if i did something in google maps and it popped up a dialog asking for access to my call logs, i would certainly deny it, but i just did that update this morning and didn't even notice anything about it accessing my call logs.

> maybe on-demand permission requests would be better for many of those things, like apple ios does when an app requests your location.

Wouldn't change much, 95% of users would still go WANNA USE APPLICATION, DISMISS MEAN BOX NOW

Cancel or allow?

Cancel doesn't give them APPLICATION NOW, so it's just training them to reflex-click allow. It's a pavlovian reaction: Cancel -> no application; Allow -> application. If they launched the application, they probably want to see what's in it.

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