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I'm porting an old game from AdMob to the latest AdMob with Firebase. I was using a deprecated version of AdMob.

I want the smallest integration as possible, I don't want Firebase analytics. I have a working integration (using Android Studio project), but when uploading my apk to Google Play, I realized new permissions were automatically added:

android.permission.WAKE_LOCK
com.frozax.hashiextreme.permission.C2D_MESSAGE
com.google.android.c2dm.permission.RECEIVE

What is this C2D thing? I don't want and don't need it. com.frozax.hashiextreme is the package name of my app. It looks like it's added from firebase-iid, but I don't want it either.

Is there a way to ignore these? I try to have as few permissions as possible.

In my dependecies, I only have

compile 'com.google.firebase:firebase-ads:9.0.0'

I tried to remove 

classpath 'com.google.gms:google-services:3.0.0'

But it's not working and I still have these permissions.

Thanks

Frozax
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I have the same issue. As described in this Reddit post you can add some lines to your manifest to avoid that:

    <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.WAKE_LOCK" tools:node="remove" />
    <uses-permission android:name="com.google.android.c2dm.permission.RECEIVE" tools:node="remove" />
    <uses-permission android:name="your.app.package.permission.C2D_MESSAGE" tools:node="remove" />

But I definitively do not know if there will be an impact on Firebase integration.

Jérémy Reynaud
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    In case another person gets the issue, I had to make sure my manifest had `xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"` I didn't see any apparent issue in the app itself, using only AdMob. – Frozax May 26 '16 at 22:04
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    If you force these permissions out of your app, there could be unintended side-effects. https://groups.google.com/d/msg/firebase-talk/CXgecSxgsRE/kgkz7liJAwAJ – Doug Stevenson Jun 07 '16 at 16:55
  • Thanks @DougStevenson, let's continue the discussion in the google group thread. – Jérémy Reynaud Jun 08 '16 at 08:45