How to check if Android Permission is actually being used?

Question

I am maintaining one existing (very-huge, very-sensitive) Android Application.
The other day, I have received an email from my client that, the Application mig

Answer 1

I tried the method suggested by Vasanth but it doesn't work for me. In fact, because my project has flavors and Code Inspection doesn't work for the project with flavors. See https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=210073.

But Running Lint from console works. So steps are simple:

1. Remove permissions from your manifest.
2. Run Lint for flavor as described here https://stackoverflow.com/a/32708435/1170154.
3. Open Lint result and find section Correctness > Error MissingPermission: Missing Permissions. It will contain all calls that require permissions.