Android always had permissions: https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/manifest/permission-element.html https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/manifest

Android always had permissions: https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/manifest/permission-element.html https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/manifest/permissi... (see "introduced in") Many apps request the phone permission to change their behavior on incoming calls, or during calls. For example, they would stop playing audio. Access to text messages is sometimes requested to automate text message-based one time pad flows for the user.