[drdaeman]

> The SMS permission is so that it can read your SMS messages

Either it's a bug in a Play Store, or we're talking about different permissions. For me, it says (in Russian, no idea how to switch language) "Отправка SMS и MMS (может взиматься плата)" which translates to "Sending SMS and MMS (fees may apply)".

Unless Google broke something with their recent permission revamp, I assume it's SEND_SMS, not READ_SMS permission. And that's worrying - I fail to see why should I grant such permission to a keyboard. It's not SMS-sending app, I have a separate one for that.

[crazypyro]

Appears to be a localization error? Here's what it looks like in English.[1]

[1]http://i.imgur.com/li8jHu2.png

[drdaeman]

Interesting. No idea, but guess so.

Or maybe they have separate builds (doing A/B testing, having region-specific versions or something like that). But I guess localization error is a more probable version. Where do I report one?

[swiftkey]

Thanks for flagging this discrepancy, we're looking into it but it appears to be a translation error.

[swiftkey]

Hi drdaeman please can you send us a screenshot of where you're seeing the text you mention to [e-mail] and briefly recap the issue? We'll get our Support Team to investigate for you. Thank you.

[drdaeman]

Sure. Sent an email.

I've also checked the installed APK, and it's certainly Google's l10n fault - the APK has READ_SMS declared, not SEND_SMS one.