TIL Android 8.0+ has privileged permission whitelisting:
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It's primarily an Android 9+ feature because for the most part only Google's first party devices enabled it on Android 8. It wasn't required by the CTS before and other vendors do the bare minimum required.
I've talked about that issue in the past here:
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Thanks. This gets complicated quickly on custom devices where the only way to add 3rd party apps is via OTA
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It's still possible to update privileged apps out-of-band and add new privileged permissions. The new privileged permissions just won't be granted until the OS is updated to a version with them included in the static whitelist.
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