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Excessive permissions!

This application is only available to devices with these features, as defined in your application manifest.
Screen layouts: SMALL NORMAL LARGE XLARGE
Required device features
android.hardware.camera
android.hardware.location.network
android.hardware.telephony
android.hardware.microphone
android.hardware.location
android.hardware.location.gps
android.hardware.camera.autofocus
android.hardware.touchscreen
android.hardware.screen.portrait
RECEIVE SMS
READ CONTACT DATA
WRITE CONTACT DATA

The app has no use for any of these! How can I remove them?

All the permissions are there by default because we don't know what PhoneGap features or API you might use in your app. You can always export the source code, modify the permissions and build the app. We are planning to add a setting where the user could specify what feature are used in an app. Hope this clears things up.

Any update on this feature? I could definitively use it.

It's on our road map. For now, you can always export the app source and modify permissions directly.

If we create the apk with PhoneGap Build... How do we make this work around?
If I unzip the apk... the manifest is unreadable....

Export the app source, not the .apk.

Any update on this? This is really important. I depend on Tiggzi to build the app for me. Exporting the app really reduces the value of Tiggzi - I really need to restrict the permissions.

Thanks.

Even if this is in the works or a beta feature, is there any way to get this done soon. For example, if I told you which permissions I didn't need, could you turn them off for my project in Tiggzi?

We don't have this feature in beta yes. I will ask.

The build on PhoneGap builder (build.phonegap.com) has strange artifacts and doesn't work well at all. It's not near as robust as a Tiggzi build.

The problem is that the wide-open permissions really restricts who can download/use it. Haven't many other run into this issue already? I'm surprised that this thread isn't bigger. How are others using Tiggzi and distributing apps to the mass of users? Many handsets seem to not show the app on Google Play since it feels that the required permissions/capabilities exceed the capabilities of the hardware.

PhoneGap builder looked to be promising since I could build many binaries with it (Android, iOS, Blackberry, Windows Mobile...) - but it seems to have quirks.

Anyone else have success with PhoneGap Builder straight from a Tiggzi based project? There seems to be lots of items to tidy up (e.g. Tiggzi didn't create an index.html file, so I copied the Splash.html which is my start screen to index.htnk. Other artifacts include that the Google Map is not showing a location despite the fact that this permission was required and accepted. And so on...

Suggestions? Any low cost freelancers out there who can take a Tiggzi project, set the permissions properly and create Android and iOS builds?