Feature Request A way to stop unity for adding unwanted permissions when building for android

I am requesting a switch or something to tell unity when it makes the manifest, to not include the Record_Audio and Microphone permissions. When creating an Oculus Quest app, and uploading it to the Oculus App store, it lists those permissions as not needed and fails to accept it. Anytime a routine references a Microphone, or Recording, Unity automatically adds those permissions to the android manifest. I have done a lot of searching, and to remove those permissions is very hard. This would make it much easier to get a Unity app on the Oculus App store.
Thanks

 

How about removing the parts of your code referencing the microphone, or recording?

 

I guess that would work, but it is not my code that includes it. It is in the Oculus code. And removing that might work, but each time Oculus is updated, it would be back. That has to be a better way. How many people create games for Oculus Quest?

 

Watch this video and you can see how hard it is to do.

There really should be a better way!

 

Come on people that create Quest 2 Games. Back me up!

 

Thanks so much.

 

Any update?

 

Did you know that you can use a custom AndroidManifest and other custom stuff?

 

No.

 

https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/android-manifest.html

https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/overriding-android-manifest.html

Solved

 

Will this also exclude the Microphone Permissions?

 

Ok, so basically there "is no fix" but there is a hack. After building your program, download Apktool, decompress the APK, modify de manifest, and recompress to apk. After that, you will need to use zipalign to align the apk. Then finally, sign the apk with apksigner. zipalign and apksigner are on the unity editor instalation SDK\build-tools\30.0.3\

I managed to publish my app yesterday with Oculus Integration 50 and Unity 2022.2.16f1.

 

You can add extra lines within the android manifest in Unity that removes permissions.
Take a look at the UPDATE 2021.04.08 section near the end of this article that provides an example.
https://skarredghost.com/2021/03/24/unity-unwanted-audio-permissions-app-lab/

 

Thanks so much. I did not notice that the video had been updated. That worked GREAT!

 

long time after this question posted but still this problem may be annoying for someone!
I had a similar problem ,one plugin was adding some unwanted permissions and found an easy way to remove them.
A brief explaination:
Enable the custom Android Manifest option in player settings
Open the created android manifest file and add permissions you dont want with property of tools:node="remove" and it will override it! no decompile or any tricky method needed!
like this:
(add these tags before starting of application tag in manifest file)

<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE" tools:node="remove" />

<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE" tools:node="remove" />

i explained it on another topic too check it out if you need

hope it helps