App permissions

AntennaPod will not ask you for any general permissions. However you can give the following permissions:

• Show notifications: Via Settings » Notifications you can give AntennaPod the permission to create notifications.
• Storage access: When you add a ‘local folder’ the app will ask for long-term access to a specific folder. When you import a database or an OPML file, selecting that file will give the app one-time access to it.

Apart from that, the app requires the following permissions which are automatically granted by Android:

• Full network access: to refresh podcasts, download and stream episodes, load images and enable synchronization
• View network connections and View Wi-Fi connections:
  • to check if there is an active internet connection, before and while taking any of the above-mentioned actions
  • for the setting Downloads » Mobile updates, to determine whether the above actions are allowed by the user on the current (mobile and/or metered) connection
• Pair with Bluetooth devices: for the setting Playback » Headphones or Bluetooth disconnect, to automatically pause or play when the phone connects with or disconnects from a Bluetooth device
• Run at startup: to (re)start services like refreshing podcasts and enabling auto-downloads
• Control vibration: for the option Vibrate shortly before end of the sleep timer, to vibrate if this setting is enabled
• Prevent device from sleeping: needed to ensure media playback and downloads continue in the background