What's New
What’s New in 3.6?
• Push To Talk - express yourself with your voice. Record short messages and send them to your friends on Skout.
• New wink bomb - now it's easier than ever to send a wink bomb and connect with tons of people instantly!
• New connections section - we're combining your Friends and Favorites to make the app easier to use
• Bug Fixes and Performance Enhancements
The application has access to the following:
System tools
prevent phone from sleeping
Allows an application to prevent the phone from going to sleep.
automatically start at boot
Allows an application to have itself started as soon as the system has finished booting. This can make it take longer to start the phone and allow the application to slow down overall performance of the phone by constantly running.
Your accounts
discover known accounts
Allows an application to get the list of accounts known by the phone.
use the authentication credentials of an account
Allows an application to request authentication tokens.
Network communication
full Internet access
Allows an application to create network sockets.
view network state
Allows an application to view the state of all networks.
view Wi-Fi state
Allows an application to view the information about the state of Wi-Fi.
Your location
coarse (network-based) location
Access coarse location sources such as the cellular network database to determine an approximate phone location, where available. Malicious applications can use this to determine approximately where you are.
fine (GPS) location
Access fine location sources such as the Global Positioning System on the phone, where available. Malicious applications can use this to determine where you are, and may consume additional battery power.
Hardware controls
control vibrator
Allows the application to control the vibrator.
take pictures
Allows application to take pictures with the camera. This allows the application at any time to collect images the camera is seeing.
record audio
Allows application to access the audio record path.
Phone calls
read phone state and identity
Allows the application to access the phone features of the device. An application with this permission can determine the phone number and serial number of this phone, whether a call is active, the number that call is connected to, ect.
Your messages
receive SMS
Allows application to receive and process SMS messages. Malicious applications may monitor your messages or delete them without showing them to you.
read SMS or MMS
Allows application to read SMS messages stored on your phone or SIM card. Malicious applications may read your confidential messages.
edit SMS or MMS
Allows application to write to SMS messages stored on your phone or SIM card. Malicious applications may delete your messages.
Paid services.
send SMS messages
Allows application to send SMS messages. Malicious applications may cost you money by sending messages without your confirmation.
Storage
modify/delete SD card contents
Allows an application to write to the SD card.
Your personal information
read contact data
Allows an application to read all of the contact (address) data stored on your phone. Malicious applications can use this to send your data to other people.
Other
com.boyahoy.android.permission.C2D_MESSAGE
com.google.android.c2dm.permission.RECEIVE
com.android.vending.BILLING
android.permission.READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE
android.permission.READ_CALL_LOG
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