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by mdp2021 1606 days ago
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.