# Understanding Android Permissions and Runtime Permission Requests

DevFeed: [Understanding Android Permissions and Runtime Permission Requests](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/mastering-android-permissions-27898.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://clevertap.com/blog/understanding-android-permissions/>)

Author: Darshan Pania

Published: 2018-07-11T07:00:55Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [CleverTap](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/clevertap.md>)

Topics: [Android](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/android.md>), [Authorization](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/authorization.md>), [App](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/app.md>)

Tags: [android](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/android.md>), [android-permissions](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/android-permissions.md>), [clevertap](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/clevertap.md>), [consent](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/consent.md>), [engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/engineering.md>), [mobile-marketing](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/mobile-marketing.md>), [mobile-marketing-technology-engineering-android](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/mobile-marketing-technology-engineering-android.md>), [permission](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/permission.md>), [permissions](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/permissions.md>), [technology](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/technology.md>)

## AI overview

This tutorial explains Android permissions, contrasts pre-Marshmallow install-time permissions with runtime permissions, and distinguishes normal from dangerous permissions.

## Source excerpt

The official meaning of the word permission means allowing someone to do a particular thing - it is consent or The post Mastering Android Permissions first appeared on CleverTap.