Android Question Remove Unwanted Bluetooth and Wifi State Permissions

[JohnF76]

I was trying to create an app release on the Play Store and the Review Summary shows the following Severe Warning...
New permissions added
Warning:
Users that have the APK with version code 21 may need to accept one or more of the android.permission.BLUETOOTH,
android.permission.BLUETOOTH_ADMIN, and android.permission.CHANGE_WIFI_STATE permissions, which may result in them not upgrading to this version of the app.
Tip:
Ensure that the new permissions are necessary, and consider mentioning these permissions in the What's new in this release text.

I had just updated my app to add support for runtime permissions and my app does not use any of these permissions, how can I remove these unwanted permissions from the automatically generated AndroidManifest.xml

 

[Erel]

First step is to understand why they were added. Click on the List permissions button (in the logs tab).

 

[JohnF76]

They are all listed under "Toggle"

Last night while searching for a solution, I found a thread that said it was added by the debugger and that I could ignore it.
Unfortunately, Google doesn't ignore it.

 

[JohnF76]

I used the Toggle Library to easily turn on the GPS as part of the Location Permissions.
I'll have to write my own GPS toggle to avoid the Bluetooth permissions.

 

[Erel]

1. You can remove permissions with RemovePermission keyword in the manifest editor.

2. It is not possible to enable GPS programmatically in new versions of Android.

 

[JohnF76]

Thanks Erel,
I've removed the toggle feature from my app and replaced it with a short message to remind that the GPS need to be on.
Luckily it's not an important feature.
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