I am trying to integrate Google Analytics for Android. As per the documentation here, it asks to add android.permission.WAKE_LOCK (provides the comment note below). I dont understand it clearly. If I am releasing the app ONLY in the Google Play Store, do I still need this?
I really do not want to ask users for an additional permission if this is not absolutely necessary.
<!-- Optional permission for reliable local dispatching on non-Google Play devices -->
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.WAKE_LOCK" />
In particular, I do not understand what this note actually means here:
Optionally a WAKE_LOCK permission can be requested to improve dispatching on non-Google Play devices.
Allows using PowerManager WakeLocks to keep processor from sleeping or screen from dimming.
On Google Play devices, a background service is almost always running as "Google Play Services", so WAKE_LOCK is not required.
On non-Google Play devices, WAKE_LOCK helps keeping the dispatching process / service of Google Analytics alive so it has more chances to report / upload data.
EDIT
Also, it is unclear what happens to dangerous permissions in permission groups that are not ones that the user can control via Settings, such as
SYSTEM_TOOLS.
https://commonsware.com/blog/2015/06/02/random-musings-m-developer-preview-bad.html