My recent hobby is to deny permissions that an android app asks for and see the app break into pieces... I don't know how people can assume that user is going to provide access... 😑

As an android developer, well, i always assume that user will deny them.

The problem is, on older apps ( pre api level 23 ), there were no dynamic permissions. Even for dangerous permissions, only one line on AndroidManifest and voila !

After marshmallow, all devs revamped their code based on that. Doing it on spaghetti code, well. Good luck. Probably why it breaks all over.

If you ex. Download a photo editor and then deny access to images then the app is pretty useless. A developer should make it clear why they need the permissions.

There is always(90% of time) a work around way. Yes, it might limit the functionality of app but if you dont give necessary permissions we make it sure that app wont crash even in that condition.

"User " is in 90 percent of the cases, not aware of what a permission is, how to revoke it or who this privacy guy everyone is talking about is.