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		tripzilch on Dec 17, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Android: I don't need your permission Would be nice if you could request "you're using an older version of Android so we need more scary permissions".

krschultz on Dec 17, 2014 [–]

You can.

Split your APK based on SDK version. Have different manifests with different permissions & code for the respective versions. The new Gradle toolchain makes all of that easy to do, but it is tough to maintain lots of version specific code long term.

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