title: Google play: about the Permissions Declaration Form
body: <p>Google recently announced an update to their Google Play Developer policy, essentially related to SMS and Call Logs.</p>
  
  <p>Previously, my app requires the sms/call related permissions, which is declared in the AndroidManifest, but that was about six month ago. Later, I just removed all the sms and call (also contacts) permissions. </p>
  
  <blockquote>
  <pre><code>&lt;uses-permission android:name="android.permission.READ_CONTACTS"tools:node="remove" /&gt;
  &lt;uses-permission android:name="android.permission.WRITE_CALENDAR" tools:node="remove" /&gt;
  &lt;uses-permission android:name="android.permission.READ_CALENDAR" tools:node="remove" /&gt;
  &lt;uses-permission android:name="android.permission.CALL_PHONE" tools:node="remove" /&gt;
  &lt;uses-permission android:name="android.permission.PROCESS_OUTGOING_CALLS" tools:node="remove" /&gt;
  &lt;uses-permission android:name="android.permission.READ_CALL_LOG" tools:node="remove" /&gt;
  &lt;uses-permission android:name="android.permission.WRITE_CALL_LOG" tools:node="remove" /&gt;
  &lt;uses-permission android:name="android.permission.WRITE_CONTACTS" tools:node="remove" /&gt;
  &lt;uses-permission android:name="android.permission.READ_PHONE_NUMBERS" tools:node="remove" /&gt;
  &lt;uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ANSWER_PHONE_CALLS" tools:node="remove" /&gt;
  &lt;uses-permission android:name="android.permission.SEND_SMS" tools:node="remove" /&gt;
  &lt;uses-permission android:name="android.permission.RECEIVE_SMS" tools:node="remove" /&gt;
  &lt;uses-permission android:name="android.permission.READ_SMS" tools:node="remove" /&gt;
  &lt;uses-permission android:name="android.permission.RECEIVE_MMS" tools:node="remove" /&gt;
  &lt;uses-permission android:name="android.permission.WRITE_SETTINGS" tools:node="remove" /&gt;
  </code></pre>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>But when submitting the new App, I still need to fill the Permissions Declaration Form, it's mandatory. This is really confusing. My AndroidManifest does not contain the listed 6 permissions anymore. How to resolve this? It's not appropriate selecting any sms/call handler because my app does not require this anymore.
  <a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/djbtF.png" rel="noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/djbtF.png" alt="enter image description here"></a></p>