[UncleMeat]

Is that true? I was under the impression that this changed years ago since virtually every app requested it anyway.

Apps could always send content over the internet by sending an intent to a browser with relevant GET parameters to whatever server is consuming the data.

[mdp2021]

Investigating, but the Android Developers page at https://developer.android.com/training/basics/network-ops/co... still states that

«To perform network operations in your application, your manifest must include the following permissions: ... .INTERNET and ... .ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE»

Though yes, applications (with particular regard to those that did not open network sockets internally) could use intents to have other applications perform network operations.