[request] whitelist an application itself

[w0rinal]

Would it be possible to automatically add an app to its applications-to-allow-list when applying the template? Either using a quirk or an option to tick?
I don't know the criteria for considering a function in android privacy-invading but in my own honest opinion letting an app itself know it's installed and see its own activities does not invade one's privacy. On the other hand I don't know in-depth how this could leak privacy related information.

BTW sorry for possibly having created this in the wrong section, I'm new to GitHub.

Regards, Nico

[M66B]

Your request is on the right place, no worries.

An application already has always access to information about itself in most cases:
https://github.com/M66B/XPrivacy/blob/master/src/biz/bokhorst/xprivacy/XPackageManager.java#L172

I will see if I can do this for more functions.

[w0rinal]

Okay, I see.
Most crashes I experience are caused by restricting the function Srv_queryIntentActivities but the specific app doesn't crash anymore when added to its own whitelist.

Thanks for the quick answer.

[M66B]

queryIntentActivities is marked dangerous for a reason.
It is not possible to detect an own activity of the application is being queried in a generic way.

[w0rinal]

I got to know how xprivacy works according to the principle 'trial and error', so I am sorry for kind of dumb questions/suggestions.

But as I said in the first post, what about optionally adding an app to its specific applications whitelist automatically?
To me - as a non-developer - this sounds like it would save you implementing the self-detection for other functions and additionally prevent crashes when restricting queryIntentActivities.
But again, I don't know too much about the technical sides.

But anyway, thanks for clarifying