Make a minimal-permissions version?

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Currently, the "Hacker's Keyboard" application requests the permissions needed 
by the underlying Gingerbread keyboard, which uses the contacts information for 
completion of names and email addresses, and audio recording for the voice 
input feature.

If you're interested in using Hacker's Keyboard, but don't want to install it 
due to the permissions it asks for, please star this bug. If there's sufficient 
interest, I'll look into making an alternate build with the code needing these 
permissions disabled. It should be doable but is a fair amount of work, and 
makes it more difficult to publish new releases due to the duplication involved.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by klausw@google.com on 20 May 2011 at 10:20

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Original comment by klausw@google.com on 20 May 2011 at 10:21

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Yes, please, offer a no-permissions alternative. I understand the permissions 
are only inherited, but disable auto correct and don't use voice input.  Due to 
permissions I would on general principles not install this on my phone unless I 
built it from source; right now it's on my test tablet that has no meaningful 
address book on it.

Original comment by cs07...@gmail.com on 24 May 2011 at 4:03

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+1 for providing fortified version.

Original comment by paul.sok...@linaro.org on 22 Aug 2011 at 9:01

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Good news, pmiscml is currently adapting the code to work for Android 1.6 
(eclair), and it looks like the changes needed include disabling voice input 
and contacts completion. See issue 57 for details. As a result, that version 
would not need the corresponding permissions. If this approach works as 
expected, I'll publish that build on Market as an alternative package.

Original comment by Klaus.We...@gmail.com on 26 Dec 2011 at 6:37

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Just a personal reflection: I've lobbied for optional permissons in the system 
for quite some time now (Dianne disagrees), but this is yet another case where 
it would make life a significantly better. Newer CyanogenMod releases 
implements it in a somewhat brute force way, that I would consider better than 
nothing. Sorry for the rant.

Original comment by catel...@gmail.com on 8 Jan 2012 at 9:38

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I agree that optional permissions would make this a lot easier, but my 
suggestions and rants have also been unable to convince the powers that be, and 
it's probably a bit late to change fundamental Android design decisions at this 
point without breaking things.

Original comment by Klaus.We...@gmail.com on 8 Jan 2012 at 3:41

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+1 for providing less permissions version.

Original comment by monk...@gmail.com on 28 Apr 2012 at 6:21

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I stumbled across this app and wanted to install it. Then stopped short when I 
saw that it requested access to my contacts list.

Open source or not, I hesitated and haven't installed it because of that.
+1 to a permissions free version.

Original comment by bobby....@gmail.com on 10 Jul 2012 at 3:27

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+1 for providing less permissions version.

Original comment by dannyboy...@gmail.com on 27 Dec 2012 at 4:05

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+1 This is very important for me. I would rather pay for a keyboard with 
similar features then installing this.

Original comment by nauman...@googlemail.com on 2 Jan 2013 at 12:48