How can we know whether an application installed in the android device reads contacts of our mobile?

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I have one small problem i.e whenever we install an application in our android mobile we need to find whether that application reads our contacts or not. If that application reads contacts then we have to raise one alert box with red mark and with some information. So thats why i am creating one application to find, the newly installed application reads our contacts or not.

Pls help me. Thanks and regards.

Just check "android.permission.READ_CONTACTS" for particular application. — user370305, Jun 28 '12 at 06:28

score 0 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 11:56

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Answer is here: Java: Need some way to shorten this code

PackageManager p = context.getPackageManager(); 
final List<PackageInfo> appinstall = 
    p.getInstalledPackages(PackageManager.GET_PERMISSIONS | 
                                      PackageManager.GET_PROVIDERS)

edited May 23 '17 at 11:56

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answered Jun 28 '12 at 06:25

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 28 '12 at 06:31

If an application can read contacts it requires android.permission.READ_CONTACTS permission. If you want to specify some particular contacts that should raise an alert then you cannot do this on an application level. You need to get down to the Android Framework level and build your own version of Android.

How can we know whether an application installed in the android device reads contacts of our mobile?

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