Adding Permissions in AndroidManifest.xml in Android Studio?

Question

In Eclipse we were able to add permissions in AndroidManifest.xml by going to AndroidManifest.xml->Permission-> Adding permissions.

How to add permissions in Android Studio? How can we get a list of all the permissions that we can add to an Activity ?

Answer 1

You can only type them manually, but the content assist helps you there, so it is pretty easy.

Add this line

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

and hit ctrl + space after the dot (or cmd + space on Mac). If you need an explanation for the permission, you can hit ctrl + q .

Answer 2

You can type them manually but the editor will assist you.

http://developer.android.com/reference/android/Manifest.permission.html

You can see the snap sot below.

As soon as you type "a" inside the quotes you get a list of permissions and also hint to move caret up and down to select the same.

Answer 3

Go to Android Manifest.xml and be sure to add the <uses-permission tag > inside the manifest tag but Outside of all other tags..

<manifest xlmns:android...>

 <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET"></uses-permission>
</manifest>

This is an example of the permission of using Internet.

Answer 4

You can add manually in the manifest file within manifest tag by:

<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.CAMERA"/>

This permission is required to be able to access the camera device.

Answer 5

It's quite simple.

All you need to do is:

• Right click above application tag and click on Generate
• Click on XML tag
• Click on user-permission
• Enter the name of your permission.

Answer 6

Put these two line in your AndroidMainfest

<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE" />