thoughtsync/android/app/src/main/AndroidManifest.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">

    <!--
      INTERNET is requested but nothing uses it until the user links a server.
      The app is local-first: the store, capture and the whole board work with
      this permission never exercised.
    -->
    <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET" />
    <!-- Only to answer "is this connection metered?" before the app downloads its own
         update in the background. Normal permission, no prompt, no location. -->
    <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE" />

    <!--
      Four more permissions are NOT declared here and still reach the merged
      manifest, contributed by WorkManager for the automatic sync:

        RECEIVE_BOOT_COMPLETED  reschedules the periodic sync after a restart,
                                instead of it silently stopping until the app is
                                next opened by hand
        ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE    evaluates the "needs a network" constraint, so a
                                run is not attempted with no route to the server
        WAKE_LOCK               holds the device awake for the seconds a sync
                                takes, so it is not suspended mid-request
        FOREGROUND_SERVICE      used only for expedited work; nothing here asks
                                for it, and it arrives with the library

      Verified against the built APK's merged manifest, not assumed. Noted here
      because all four appear in the app's permission list and nothing else in
      this file would explain where they came from.
    -->

    <!--
      usesCleartextTraffic, deliberately.

      Android blocks plain HTTP by default from API 28, and the core explicitly
      supports a self-hosted server on a LAN — `http://192.168.1.10:8000` is a
      case it has a test for. Leaving the platform default would make this app
      unusable for exactly the people it is built for, with a transport error
      they could do nothing about.

      Scoped by the fact that the app talks to ONE host: the server the user
      typed in. There is no ad SDK, no analytics, nothing else making requests.
      A network-security-config would be tighter in principle, but it matches on
      domains and IP literals rather than CIDR ranges, so it cannot express
      "any address on my own network" — the case that actually matters here.

      The trade is not made silently: the sync screen shows an unmissable
      warning when the probed address is http://, BEFORE any credential field
      appears. See SyncScreen.kt.
    -->
    <!--
      Reminders.

      POST_NOTIFICATIONS is a runtime permission from API 33. It is asked for in
      context — the first time the app opens holding a reminder that could fire,
      never at launch on an empty board, where there would be nothing to explain
      why it is being asked.

      SCHEDULE_EXACT_ALARM rather than USE_EXACT_ALARM. USE_EXACT_ALARM is granted
      at install with no prompt, and is reserved for apps whose whole purpose is an
      alarm clock or calendar; a note app claiming it would be claiming something
      untrue. SCHEDULE_EXACT_ALARM is the one the person can grant or refuse, and
      refusing costs precision, not the feature — see Reminders.scheduleNext.

      RECEIVE_BOOT_COMPLETED already arrives via WorkManager (below), but is
      declared here too because ReminderReceiver now depends on it directly. A
      permission this file relies on should be visible in this file.
    -->
    <!--
      Updating this app from the server it syncs with (M12 step 7).

      REQUEST_INSTALL_PACKAGES lets the app hand an APK to the system installer at
      all. It is NOT what makes an install look suspicious to on-device heuristics
      — Mihon declares it too — the legacy ACTION_VIEW install intent was, and this
      app uses a PackageInstaller session instead. See AppUpdate.kt and Scribe note
      2437. The person must additionally grant "install unknown apps" in system
      settings; the update card asks before downloading anything.

      UPDATE_PACKAGES_WITHOUT_USER_ACTION (API 31+) is what removes the install
      confirmation on the UPDATE path, and only there — Android will not let an app
      silently put a NEW package on a device, which is correct. It also only applies
      when the new build is signed with the same key as the installed one, which is
      why signing had to land before any of this could work.
    -->
    <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.REQUEST_INSTALL_PACKAGES" />
    <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.UPDATE_PACKAGES_WITHOUT_USER_ACTION" />

    <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.POST_NOTIFICATIONS" />
    <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.SCHEDULE_EXACT_ALARM" />
    <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.RECEIVE_BOOT_COMPLETED" />

    <application
        android:name=".ThoughtSyncApplication"
        android:allowBackup="true"
        android:icon="@mipmap/ic_launcher"
        android:label="@string/app_name"
        android:roundIcon="@mipmap/ic_launcher_round"
        android:supportsRtl="true"
        android:theme="@style/Theme.ThoughtSync"
        android:usesCleartextTraffic="true">
        <activity
            android:name=".MainActivity"
            android:exported="true"
            android:windowSoftInputMode="adjustResize"
            android:theme="@style/Theme.ThoughtSync">
            <intent-filter>
                <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />
                <category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
            </intent-filter>
        </activity>

        <!--
          Not exported: every intent that reaches it is one this app created, with
          an explicit component. Exporting would let any app on the device mark
          someone's reminders as done.

          The two system broadcasts are the exception and need the filter, because
          the system is the sender. Both exist for the same reason — pending alarms
          do not survive either a reboot or an app update, so without this a phone
          that restarts overnight would quietly stop reminding anyone of anything.
        -->
        <!--
          Where the system reports what happened to an install we committed. Not
          exported: the only sender is the PendingIntent this app handed to
          PackageInstaller. Without it a failed install would be indistinguishable
          from someone declining the dialog (Scribe #2438).
        -->
        <receiver
            android:name=".UpdateReceiver"
            android:exported="false" />

        <receiver
            android:name=".ReminderReceiver"
            android:exported="false">
            <intent-filter>
                <action android:name="android.intent.action.BOOT_COMPLETED" />
                <action android:name="android.intent.action.MY_PACKAGE_REPLACED" />
            </intent-filter>
        </receiver>
    </application>
</manifest>