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docs: Clarified when GET_ACCOUNTS is necessary

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Per bug report, clarified when an app needs GET_ACCOUNTS permission
to read the current account's information.

Along the same lines, clarified that the CONTACTS permissions group
regulates permissions for all accounts and contacts on the device, not
just the user's contact info (since GET_ACCOUNTS is in CONTACTS, and,
as noted, GET_ACCOUNTS applies to other users' info).

See first comment for doc stage location.

bug: 23589012
Change-Id: Ia87565936787dd85daedfb641883e7cbf778f2bd
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Andrew Solovay
2015-12-02 10:33:24 -08:00
parent d12709f395
commit 5e33fbe94c
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@@ -330,7 +330,8 @@
<!-- ====================================================================== -->
<eat-comment />
<!-- Used for runtime permissions related to user's contacts and profile. -->
<!-- Used for runtime permissions related to contacts and profiles on this
device. -->
<permission-group android:name="android.permission-group.CONTACTS"
android:icon="@drawable/perm_group_contacts"
android:label="@string/permgrouplab_contacts"
@@ -1037,7 +1038,15 @@
<eat-comment />
<!-- Allows access to the list of accounts in the Accounts Service.
<p>Protection level: dangerous
<p class="note"><strong>Note:</strong> Beginning with Android 6.0 (API level
23), if an app shares the signature of the authenticator that manages an
account, it does not need <code>"GET_ACCOUNTS"</code> permission to read
information about that account. On Android 5.1 and lower, all apps need
<code>"GET_ACCOUNTS"</code> permission to read information about any
account.</p>
<p>Protection level: dangerous
-->
<permission android:name="android.permission.GET_ACCOUNTS"
android:permissionGroup="android.permission-group.CONTACTS"