Translations:Wikimedia Apps/Android FAQ/19/en

App permissions
This permission is used for the Nearby functionality only. If you don't use it, we don't request your current location. This permission seems a bit mislabeled by the Play Store. Even without this permission an app could read photos and media files. The app needs this permission to be able to write to external storage so it can temporarily save images for sharing them to other apps. Technically we wouldn't need it on the latest Android versions, but we also support older Android releases
 * Why does the app need the Location permission (ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION)?
 * Why does the app need the Photos/Media/Files permission (WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE)?