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Vuforia asking for useless intrusive permission

By griboue on Tue, 01/21/2020 - 20:04

Hello everybody,

 

I am making an Android application with Unity 2017.3.0f3 and Vuforia 7.0.36.

 

At startup, the application asks for

- camera permission (that's ok and logic)

- "Pictures, file and media on this device" (I don't understand this one !)

 

After further investigations, I discovered that during the creation of the Android Manifest file, Vuforia (VuforiaWrapper) was adding:

- READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE 

- WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE

 

That is why the application is asking for the second permission I guess.

 

Hence, why is Vuforia adding those aggresive accesses ?

How to remove that ?

 

 

griboue

Wed, 01/22/2020 - 16:47

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Many thanks for the answer.

Is there a way to get rid of this permission ("pictures, files, media") ?

My application simply detects an image and replaces it by another one: