About this app

Google Play services is used to update Google apps and apps from Google Play.
This component provides core functionality like authentication to your Google services, synchronized contacts, access to all the latest user privacy settings, and higher quality, lower-powered location based services.
Google Play services also enhances your app experience. It speeds up offline searches, provides more immersive maps, and improves gaming experiences.
Apps may not work if you uninstall Google Play services.

App Permissions

Allows access to the list of accounts in the Accounts Service.
Allows applications to open network sockets.
Allows an app to create windows using the type TYPE_APPLICATION_OVERLAY, shown on top of all other apps.
Allows an application to receive the ACTION_BOOT_COMPLETED that is broadcast after the system finishes booting.
Allows an application to find out the space used by any package.
Allows an application to capture video output.
Allows an application to capture audio output.
Allows an application to call killBackgroundProcesses(String].
Allows access to the vibrator.
Allows applications to read the sync settings.
Allows an application to read or write the system settings.
Allows applications to write the sync settings.
Allows an app to access precise location.
Allows applications to perform I/O operations over NFC.
Allows read only access to phone state, including the phone number of the device, current cellular network information, the status of any ongoing calls, and a list of any PhoneAccounts registered on the device.
Allows using PowerManager WakeLocks to keep processor from sleeping or screen from dimming.
Allows applications to access information about networks.
Allows an application to receive SMS messages.
Allows an application to read the user's contacts data.
Allows an app to use fingerprint hardware.
Required to be able to access the camera device.
Allows an application to collect component usage statistics
Declaring the permission implies intention to use the API and the user of the device can grant permission through the Settings application.
Allows an application to monitor incoming MMS messages.
Allows an app to access approximate location.
Allows an application to access extra location provider commands.
Allows an application to use location features in hardware, such as the geofencing api.
Allows applications to access information about Wi-Fi networks.
Allows applications to change Wi-Fi connectivity state.
Marker permission for applications that wish to access notification policy.
Allows an application to see the number being dialed during an outgoing call with the option to redirect the call to a different number or abort the call altogether.
Allows an application to send SMS messages.
Allows applications to connect to paired bluetooth devices.
Allows applications to discover and pair bluetooth devices.
Allows applications to enter Wi-Fi Multicast mode.
Allows a companion app to run in the background.
Allows applications to set the system time zone.
This constant was deprecated in API level 21. No longer enforced.
Allows an application to read the user's call log.
Allows an application to read SMS messages.
Allows an application to write the user's contacts data.
Allows modification of the telephony state - power on, mmi, etc.
Allows an application to call any phone number, including emergency numbers, without going through the Dialer user interface for the user to confirm the call being placed.
Allows applications to pair bluetooth devices without user interaction, and to allow or disallow phonebook access or message access.
Allows applications to disable the keyguard if it is not secure.
Allows an application to initiate a phone call without going through the Dialer user interface for the user to confirm the call.
Allows applications to change network connectivity state.
Allows an application to change the Z-order of tasks.
Allows an application to capture secure video output.
Allows an application to record audio.
Allows an application to read the low-level system log files.
Allows an application to modify global audio settings.
Allows an application to write (but not read] the user's call log data.
Allows an application to request deleting packages.
Allows an application to know what content is playing and control its playback.
Allows an application to access data from sensors that the user uses to measure what is happening inside his/her body, such as heart rate.