[danielweber]

The Facebook app lets you take photos and videos to post on your feed. How else would they be able to do that without camera access?

Isn't the point of the Android app model of breaking everything up into Activities that you can call another Activity which does the video/photo recording, and then you just deal with the result?

(That's not a rhetorical question; I may be misunderstanding the intent of the design, or how people use the design in reality, or both.)

[aguyhere123]

Yes, you're right that activities are broken up like that. Permissions are defined in the application manifest, and apply to all activities within the application.

Facebook would have to break their application into a calling app and newsfeed app to split the permissions apart. It would still request permission to record and take videos for both, though, if they implemented video recording on the newsfeed app.