App asks for unnecessary permissions like "phone"

[Henry Smith]

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[Henry Smith]

It appears that this is because I'm using 'deviceUniqueIdentifier' to identify devices.

[Mark E]

Actually it asks me "Allow Spaceteam to make and manage phone calls?". I will not allow that and it will drive off potential users. I suggest you find a different way to identify users. Is it really necessary to identify them perfectly? I think this is frowned upon and discouraged by Google. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5088474/how-can-i-get-the-uuid-of-my-android-phone-in-an-application

[Former user]

Android does that to every app. While Spaceteam only needs to check your IMEI, Android treats it as a 'phone group', and will automatically allow every other sub-item in that group. So you get warnings like "This app can incur charges by making phone calls!" Um... while that is possible, it's impossible to not use IMEI. Plus, a lot of other apps use this and Google does NOT frown upon this method. Using the Android_ID? That gets reset on every factory reset. So we can't verify your phone uniquely.

[Henry Smith]

I certainly don't want to make or receive phone calls! There must be a way to remove that permission, I'll look into it.

[Henry Smith]

Removing version: 2.1 (automated comment)