*updates cheap phone*
*opens default Camera app*
...
WHY

I remember having an app that required this permission, but the app explained why it needed it and it might apply here too.
iirc it was so calls don't interrupt the video recording.

Video calls? Or the code for the app is taken from somewhere they forgot to remove the permission

@theNSA @NotNSA do u have something to do? Trying to watch our calls?

What the fuck is wrong w/ Android?

@nntoan Welcome to devrant, once u have more rants or comments tag me anywhere tto help u get an avatar

@linuxxx @matsaki95 wanna help a newcomer?

@jpichardo what im suppose to say after that? lol

@nntoan huh?

Does it have a built in QR code scanner? If so it could be for making calls from QR codes

@nntoan just tag @jpichardo. Once you get enough ++ (i think 20) you get the option for an avatar. So what he's offering is to help you get started with enough ++ to get a face, if I'm understanding correctly.

Welcome to devRant!

@taylorviktorya How to know that I have enough ++ ?

@UltimateZero I believe it is so calls don't interrupt video, as @bhsantos said.

Edit: might just be the phone, my Android only needs microphone to record sound for video (plus reasonable ones like access to my camera and storage).

@nntoan it'll say under your name, or if you go to your profile (menu, profile) it'll tell you how many you have there. Thats also where you create your avatar (you would select the picture that's in the top half or third of your screen) and it'll take you to the avatar builder.

There's several reasons for this, the default popup is not really helping. Some examples as to why it could need this permission:

- Video calling
- Interrupting or diverting calls during camera usage
- Read phone status; prevent/allow some functions from working while in a call

@rvnx @taylorviktorya @amateur64 @bhsantos
Well I just tried to call my phone while recording with OpenCamera (which doesn't ask for that permission), it kept recording while phone is ringing and paused when I picked up. The same way music players handle phone calls I guess.

@dev0urer
Nope, no QR scanner.

I guess this camera update was in the "security improvements" they mentioned.
PS: it's an Infinix Hot S if anyone is curious. (Some Nigerian brand with a Chinese firmware and lots of bloa- cool apps!)

I think Android did a nice step with on-demand permissions because you're getting asked at a more specific time, but that is a drop im a sea needed to rise to a good standard. It's incredibly difficult to tell whether a permission is actually needed for legit reasons or for malicious reasons, as this rant/comments demonstrate, but even if it makes perfect sense, like SMS permissions for an SMS app, who's to say that it's not using that permission both as expected and maliciously. The permissions should enable Google to make it much easier to check for malicious use of permissions so anything in the Play Store would be checked to not use it's permissions maliciously, but:
1) I don't trust Google to do that and
2) it's sometimes also hard to define "malicious"

Unfortunately, I don't really have a good permission system idea at the moment, but I definitely find the current implementation lacking.

@taylorviktorya thanks, yeah @nntoan now u do