Android permissions used by anMoney

[anMoney Developer]

This post describes how and why certain permissions are used by
anMoney.

Permission: Your personal information, add or modify calendar events
and send email to guests, read calendar events.
Purpose: Used for creating recurring bill and follow-up reminders in
the phone's calendar.


Permission: Read contact data, write contact data
Purpose: Used when importing/exporting payees to and from the phone's
contact list.


Pemission: Storage, modify/delete SD card contents
Purpose: Uses to back-up books and import/export QIF/OFX files


Pemission: System tools, prevents phone from sleeping
Purpose: For the few seconds while the auto backup and recurring
transaction enter happens, keeps the phone from going to standby mode
to prevent potential data loss.


Pemission: Your accounts, discover known accounts
Purpose: Used when importing/exporting payees to and from the phone's
contact list. The list of accounts on the phone is read and you are
given the option to pick the account used for contact operations.


Pemission: System tools, automatically start at boot
Purpose: Starts the alarm timer that performs the auto backup and
recurring transaction enter functions. No processing intensive tasks
are performed at this time.


Pemission: Phone calls, read phone state and identity
Purpose: Along with the permission below, used for Android Market
license verification purposes to generate an encryption key unique to
your phone.


Pemission: Network communication, Market license check
Purpose: Used to perform the Android Market license verification