Android Tutorial

By : Ketan Bhimani

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same certificate to use that component for controlled application

inter operability.

Permissions can be broken down into categories, called permission

groups, which describe or warn why specific Activities require

permission. For example, permissions might be applied for

Activities that expose sensitive user data such as location and

personal information (android. permission- group.LOCATION and

android. permission group. PERSONAL_ INFO), access underlying

hardware (android.permissiongroup. HARDWARE_ CONTROLS), or

perform operations that might incur fees to the user (android

.permission -group.COST_MONEY). A complete list of permission

groups is available within the Manifest .permission _group class.

Enforcing Content Provider Permissions at the Uri Level

You can also enforce fine-grained permissions at the Uri level using

the <grant-uri- permissions> tag.

Exploring Other Manifest File Settings

We have now covered the basics of the Android manifest file, but

there are many other settings configurable within the Android

manifest file using different tag blocks, not to mention attributes

within each tag we already discussed.

Some other features you can configure within the Android manifest

file include

 Setting application-wide themes as <application> tag attributes

 Configuring instrumentation using the <instrumentation> tag

 Aliasing activities using the <activity-alias> tag

 Creating intent filters using the <intent-filter> tag

 Creating broadcast receivers using the <receiver> tag