Question

i have written an application that needs to process outgoing calls. Everything works fine, the application has already a few hundred downloads, but now i get feedback from people who would like to download it, yet cannot find it.

I have done some tests and have found that the permission “PROCESS_OUTGOING_CALLS” seems to be responsible for this. If i include it in an app, people with branded phones (at least in Germany) cannot find it, as soon as i remove this permission, everything is fine (when i re-insert it again, the app vanishes again)

The weird thing is, that those users can see other apps which use this permission in the market. I have compared my manifest file to outputs from other manifest files and cannot understand why it doesn’t work.

Here is the manifest file for a test application i wrote to test the problem:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
package="com.eventkontor.marketavailabilitytest" 
    android:versionName="1.2"
android:versionCode="3" 
    android:installLocation="auto">

<application 
         android:icon="@drawable/icon" 
         android:label="@string/app_name">

    <activity android:name=".showMain" 
                android:label="@string/app_name">

        <intent-filter>
            <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />
            <category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
        </intent-filter>
    </activity>

</application>

<uses-sdk android:minSdkVersion="3"
        android:targetSdkVersion="4" />

<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET"></uses-permission>
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.PROCESS_OUTGOING_CALLS"></uses-permission>
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.READ_CONTACTS"></uses-permission>
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.VIBRATE"></uses-permission>
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.READ_PHONE_STATE"></uses-permission>
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_WIFI_STATE"></uses-permission>

<supports-screens android:normalScreens="true"
    android:resizeable="true" android:largeScreens="true"
    android:smallScreens="false"></supports-screens>

</manifest> 

Does anyone have an idea what i’m doing wrong?

Answer 1

As per Dontae’s response in the Android Market help forum thread,

Hi All,

Our team is hard at work investigating this issue. We hope to have an update available to share soon.

Thanks for your reports and your patience.