Hey community! 🖐 I recently added Amplitude to my Android project, and I’m now getting this warning in the Play Store when I upload a new bundle containing Amplitude. After digging into my merged manifest, I found that it was indeed Amplitude that had added the “COARSE_LOCATION” permission. I know that I can disable various tracking options, but is there a way to disable them and remove this permission from our app, yet still use Amplitude?
Best answer by Denis Holmes
Hey
I got a reply from our Engineers! You can still use the Kotlin Android SDK without this permission, but the country field will be empty.
I am also sharing where they found the code:
Thanks!
+8Hi
Can you let me know which version of the Android SDK you are using? I know you can disable location tracking but I am not too sure if you can completely remove the permission. I believe Amplitude will still work, but it would be difficult to identify some users and their locations. However, applying trackingOption APIs for latlng will do the job not to report location data.
For Android SDK, there is V 2.25.1 https://github.com/amplitude/Amplitude-Android/releases/tag/v2.25.1 to address this issue. It won’t add location permissions anymore to manifest file. I hope this helps!
Kind Regards,
Denis
I’m currently using the latest Android Kotlin SDK (according to the installation guidelines here). I might try switching over to the Android SDK you suggested instead!
+8Hi
Thanks for letting me know
+8Hey
I got a reply from our Engineers! You can still use the Kotlin Android SDK without this permission, but the country field will be empty.
I am also sharing where they found the code:
Thanks!
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_COARSE_LOCATION" tools:node="remove"/>Cheers!
+8Indeed, as I said above “You can still use the Kotlin Android SDK without this permission”. Glad you found it!
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