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by aguyhere123 4330 days ago
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.