Differences between Uses-Permission and Permissions tag in AndroidManifest.xml

Question

What is the difference between Uses-Permission and Permissions tag in AndroidManifest.xml . I understood uses-permission

Answer 1

Quoting the documentation:

To enforce your own permissions, you must first declare them in your AndroidManifest.xml using one or more <permission> tags. For example, an application that wants to control who can start one of its activities could declare a permission for this operation as follows:

<manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    package="com.me.app.myapp" >

    <permission android:name="com.me.app.myapp.permission.DEADLY_ACTIVITY"
        android:label="@string/permlab_deadlyActivity"
        android:description="@string/permdesc_deadlyActivity"
        android:permissionGroup="android.permission-group.COST_MONEY"
        android:protectionLevel="dangerous" />

</manifest>

Hence, <uses-permission> is when your application is seeking the user's permission to use some feature, while <permission> is when your application is requiring other apps to seek the user's permission to use some feature of yours.

Answer 2

Simply:

• <permission> is for defining a custom permission.

• <uses-permission> is for using a permission in your app.

You may also be interested in security problems with custom permissions as of Feb. 2018. Their explanation of permissions in section 2 seemed far more clear to me than the documentation.