Allows an application to access Assisted GPS (AGPS)

Allows an application to access Cell-ID location

Allows an application to access GPS location

Allows an application to access geographical location (GPS, cell-id, etc.)

Allows an application to use SurfaceFlinger's low level features

Allows an application to publish system-level services. Such services can only be published from processes that never go away, so this is not something that any normal application can do.

Allows an application to broadcast a notification that an application package has been removed.

Allows an application to broadcast sticky intents. These are broadcasts whose data is held by the system after being finished, so that clients can quickly retrieve that data without having to wait for the next broadcast.

Allows an application to initiate a phone call without going through the Dialer user interface for the user to confirm the call being placed.

Allows an application to change whether an application component (other than it's own) is enabled or not.

Allows an application to delete packages.

Allows an application to retrieve state dump information from system services.

Allows an application to get information about the currently or recently running tasks: a thumbnail representation of the tasks, what activities are running in it, etc.

Allows an application to install packages.

Allows an application to open windows that are for use by parts of the system user interface. Not for use by third party apps.

Allows an application to get raised thread priorities, for realtime audio playback.

Allows an application to read the user's contacts data.

Allows an application to take screen shots and more generally get access to the frame buffer data

Allows an application to receive the BOOT_COMPLETED_ACTION that is broadcast after the system finishes booting. If you don't request this permission, you will not receive the broadcast at that time. Though holding this permission does not have any security implications, it can have a negative impact on the user experience by increasing the amount of time it takes the system to start and allowing applications to have themselves running without the user being aware of them. As such, you must explicitly declare your use of this facility to make that visible to the user.

Allows an application to monitor incoming SMS messages, to record or perform processing on them.

Allows an application to monitor incoming WAP push messages.

Allows an application to start running an instrumentation package.

Allows an application to watch and control how activities are started globally in the system. Only for is in debugging (usually the monkey command).

Allows an application to modify the list of preferred applications with the PackageManager.addPackageToPreferred() and PackageManager.removePackageFromPreferred() methods.

Allow an application to request that a signal be sent to all persistent processes

Allows an application to open windows using the type TYPE_SYSTEM_ALERT, shown on top of all other applications. Very few applications should use this permission; these windows are intended for system-level interaction with the user.

Allows an application to write (but not read) the user's contacts data.

Allows an application to read or write the user's contacts data.