By @TheMysticS from d4rken/sdmaid-public#5609

The idea I spoke about earlier is about an app that will list all app permissions in one place. Currently, Android shows app permissions in 3 different places:

App Info page Special Access Permissions Manager In order to control or just see what permissions an app has access to, the user has to go to 3 different places now.

This new app I'm suggesting will basically list every single permission an app has requested in one place, giving the user a bird's eye view of app permissions.

It will have two tabs at the bottom (or top):

Apps: This will list all the apps installed. Clicking on any app will list every single permission that the app has requested, including those that show up under Permissions Manager and Special Access, along with their status (ON/ OFF, Allowed/ Disallowed, etc.)

Permissions: This will list every single permission such as Contacts, Microphone, Camera, etc., including those that show up under Permissions Manager and Special Access. Clicking on each will show all the apps that currently has access to that permission.

This will also include internet permissions, SharedUserID status!

In both the above cases, it will be nice to segregate the output in two sections: One where apps have been allowed a permission or permissions that an app currently has access to, and another section where the same is denied.

Due to limitations of Android, this app will not allow for controlling permissions from within the app, atleast not without root. Instead, it will provide a bird's eye view of the entire permission set available to each app, and also provide a shortcut to the appropriate System Settings page, if the user wants to change any.

Currently, there is not a single app that can do this. So you may consider making one.

Thanks.

Do we? Do I? want this?

• [x] Graphic Assets
• [x] Screenshots
• [x] Description texts (could use the ones provided by @IzzySoft)
• [x] Can we automate releases via fastlane

It works now, it doesn't crash at start (Issue #8).

But when i do this: Wait for apps to load>tap any app>tap a permission, it crashes, it supposed to open the app's permission settings page

On Permissions tab, when i tap a permission on Permissions tab, it supposed to list apps that uses that perm, but it just crashes

(I'll upload a log tomorrow or the day after)

If an app is installed in both the Main Profile and the Work Profile, only one of them is shown in the Apps tab.

In the attached screenshot, you'll see that the File Manager is showing up only once, as being installed by Shelter app. So this app is from the Work Profile.

I have the same app installed in the main profile too using SAI. It is not showing up.

Screenshot_2022-07-17-20-15-12-95_ce34de6323cfaeb7a2880d42987990b1

This is an extension of the suggestion made here:

https://github.com/d4rken-org/mystic-permissions/issues/71

Can we add battery optimisation status and move internet access status to a new place:

OR

This section is usually empty and unused. It can be utilised to show more information. It will also help with the UI suggestion referenced above.

In the Apps tab, the install source icon is shown for each app on the right.

Where the install source is Google Play Store or an OEM Store, please make that icon clickable to launch the app page in the respective store.

This refers to the following ticket:

https://github.com/d4rken-org/mystic-permissions/issues/34

The Siblings are not showing up under SharedUserID.

App version v.0.2.4 I'm using Android 12 (Oxygen OS).

From https://github.com/d4rken/mystic-permissions/issues/1#issuecomment-1186192801

See for installer packagenames: https://github.com/d4rken/sdmaid-public/issues/5618

/cc @TheMysticS

Permissions in app details are not well sorted, we should sort them.

Suggestion:

• Primary sort order: GRANTED/DENIED/UNKNOWN
• Secondary sort order: Interest level

The second sort will be based on a number that we manually give each of the known permissions. We create a sort order similar to how the system shows the permissions to create a familiar experience for the user.

This idea is an alternative to the one suggested in #37 .

How about adding a 'More' (can be replaced with an icon) button on the existing Permissions Bar (at the rightmost end) that will open a pop-up window which will list all the permissions (from those 30 or so permissions that users can configure) requested by each app in a vertical list?

The implementation will be similar to the horizontal bar in terms of the following:

1. All permissions requested AND granted will have the coloured icon.

2. All permissions requested BUT denied will be greyed out.

3. Permissions not requested won't be shown.

These will be the features:

1. The pop-up window will be scrollable.
2. Icons will also have the name of the permission next to them.
3. The buttons (icons) will be clickable and will launch the corresponding System Settings page for the app.
4. Permissions will be sorted alphabetically in two sections: Enabled permissions on top, followed by disabled permissions..

At some point in future, these buttons can also act as actual toggles that the user can use to toggle permissions.

I've introduced the abstraction PermissionAction which we can now use to give each permission a custom action, e.g. open their respective system screen if that is possible:

https://github.com/d4rken-org/mystic-permissions/blob/ff577d72e866004f1db57175a70ddcf1e76a6a81/app/src/main/java/eu/darken/myperm/permissions/core/PermissionAction.kt

So we have to add each permission and it's action here: https://github.com/d4rken-org/mystic-permissions/blob/ff577d72e866004f1db57175a70ddcf1e76a6a81/app/src/main/java/eu/darken/myperm/permissions/core/known/AKnownPermissions.kt

Currently it all defaults to None

hey @d4rken can you use this activity com.android.packageinstaller.permission.ui.ManagePermissionsActivity to open this Window when tapping on a app's permission. You can found that activity on com.android.packageinstaller and com.google.android.packageinstaller

In the Permissions tab, you can expand a category and tap a permission to view apps that have that permission, but you can't view apps that have any of the permissions in that category. For example, in the Calls category, I have 18/32, 15/24, 3/9, 4/11, 48/103, 6/10, 5/6, and 0/0. There's obviously going to be some overlap, and there's obviously apps that have some of these permissions but not others, so choosing any one permission will not show me all apps that have a phone permission. It would be useful to be able to long-press the category (Calls in this case) or have a button on it that can be tapped to show a list of all apps with any of the permissions within that category, which could then be sorted and filtered, e.g. from most permissions within the category to least.

Aside from the "Other" category, where it can be tricky coming up with icons for some of the permissions, all other categories have an icon next to each permission when expanded, except the "Calls" category, which has a phone icon next to the first five then a blank space next to the last three (PROCESS_OUTGOING_CALLS, ADD_VOICEMAIL, and MANAGE_ONGOING_CALLS). This makes it look like either they didn't render or there's something special about these, but it seems to me it's just a case of them being missed when assigning icons.

On the Permissions details pages, it says how many user and system apps are granted the permission, but there isn't a way to filter or sort them. For example, fo rthe WRITE_SETTINGS (modify system settings) permissions, I have 80/80 system apps with the permission granted and 1/35. The system ones are of no concern, but it would be nice to know what user app requests this potentially dangerous permission, especially considering it's the only one and therefore makes me wonder if it really needs it. The only way to do this is to scroll through all 80 apps and try to find the one user app in them, which I've done a few times and haven't found any that stand out as such.

Many of the apps say "Declares # permissions" but it's not really clear what this means. I assume it means how many are declared in the app manifest, but it doesn't make any sense, since there's always a discrepancy between declared vs requested/granted. Some are minor, such as 1 declared and 4-5 granted/requested, but some are extreme, e.g. 119 of 163 granted with 2 declared. This doesn't make any sense, and having some context would help, as well as being able to see what permissions are declared.

MiXplorer shows three icons in the Apps tab, one for storage, which is grey, and one for Bluetooth and another for network access, both of which are blue. When I open its details, it shows no permissions granted for storage, whereas all the various storage permissions (ACCESS_ALL_DOWNLOADS, MANAGE_DOCUMENTS, WRITE_MEDIA_STORAGE, MANAGE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE, WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE, etc) all show as not granted. However, the app, a file manager, works, and if I go to the system permissions page for it, it shows "Files and media > All Files" which indicates that PP is not correctly seeing its permissions, and makes me wonder how many others are inaccurate. This is on a Samsung A71 running Android 12 an One UI 4.1 and the latest version of PP (1.1.2-rc0 ~ 3e5469f).