# READ\_CONTACTS or WRITE\_CONTACTS now required?

**URL:** <https://devforum.zoom.us/t/read-contacts-or-write-contacts-now-required/1606>\
**Category:** Android\
**Created:** [August 17, 2018, 10:06pm UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/read-contacts-or-write-contacts-now-required/1606 "2018-08-17T22:06:21Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Kent\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3e96dc/32.png) [@Kent\_P](https://devforum.zoom.us/u/Kent_P)\
**Post date:** [August 17, 2018, 10:06pm UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/read-contacts-or-write-contacts-now-required/1606/1 "2018-08-17T22:06:21Z")

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Recently, we:

1. Updated to the latest Android SDK (according to the Github repo).

2. Changed our target and compile SDK version to 27 from 14.

Now, when leaving a Zoom meeting where there are other participants (i.e. NOT when leaving a meeting where we’re still waiting for host), we get the following error after the Zoom activity closes:

java.lang.SecurityException: Permission Denial: opening provider com.android.providers.contacts.ContactsProvider2 from ProcessRecord{b7ca11 29152:com.kaizena.android.livesampleapp\_androidstudio:zoom\_meeting/u0a131} (pid=29152, uid=10131) requires android.permission.READ\_CONTACTS or android.permission.WRITE\_CONTACTS  
at android.os.Parcel.readException(Parcel.java:1943)  
at android.os.Parcel.readException(Parcel.java:1889)  
at android.content.IContentService$Stub$Proxy.registerContentObserver(IContentService.java:768)  
at android.content.ContentResolver.registerContentObserver(ContentResolver.java:1940)  
at android.content.ContentResolver.registerContentObserver(ContentResolver.java:1929)  
at com.zipow.videobox.ptapp.ABContactsCache.\<init\>(ABContactsCache.java:72)  
at com.zipow.videobox.ptapp.ABContactsCache.getInstance(ABContactsCache.java:61)  
at com.zipow.videobox.view.CallConnectingView.onDetachedFromWindow(CallConnectingView.java:172)  
at android.view.View.dispatchDetachedFromWindow(View.java:17456)  
at android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchDetachedFromWindow(ViewGroup.java:3681)  
at android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchDetachedFromWindow(ViewGroup.java:3673)  
at android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchDetachedFromWindow(ViewGroup.java:3673)  
at android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchDetachedFromWindow(ViewGroup.java:3673)  
at android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchDetachedFromWindow(ViewGroup.java:3673)  
at android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchDetachedFromWindow(ViewGroup.java:3673)  
at android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchDetachedFromWindow(ViewGroup.java:3673)  
at android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchDetachedFromWindow(ViewGroup.java:3673)  
at android.view.ViewRootImpl.dispatchDetachedFromWindow(ViewRootImpl.java:3498)  
at android.view.ViewRootImpl.doDie(ViewRootImpl.java:6358)  
at android.view.ViewRootImpl.die(ViewRootImpl.java:6335)  
at android.view.WindowManagerGlobal.removeViewLocked(WindowManagerGlobal.java:464)  
at android.view.WindowManagerGlobal.removeView(WindowManagerGlobal.java:402)  
at android.view.WindowManagerImpl.removeViewImmediate(WindowManagerImpl.java:125)  
at android.app.ActivityThread.handleDestroyActivity(ActivityThread.java:4525)  
at android.app.ActivityThread.-wrap5(Unknown Source:0)  
at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:1679)  
at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:105)  
at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:164)  
at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:6669)  
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)  
at com.android.internal.os.Zygote$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(Zygote.java:240)  
at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:782)

Looks like one solution is to add the&nbsp;READ\_CONTACTS&nbsp;or WRITE\_CONTACTS as permissions to our app, but we’d like to avoid this. Is there a way to not require these permissions?

We’re testing on an Android 8.0 device, and we’re building with AAPT2 disabled.

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**Author:** ![Jacky\_Du](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/devforum.zoom.us/jacky_du/32/63_2.png) [@Jacky\_Du](https://devforum.zoom.us/u/Jacky_Du)\
**Post date:** [August 21, 2018, 1:26am UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/read-contacts-or-write-contacts-now-required/1606/2 "2018-08-21T01:26:13Z")

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We have uploaded a new SDK version to github .Please use the latest Android SDK version to test this issue.

[https://github.com/zoom/zoom-sdk-android](https://github.com/zoom/zoom-sdk-android)

Thanks.

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**Author:** ![DeveloperBot](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/devforum.zoom.us/developerbot/32/12632_2.png) [@DeveloperBot](https://devforum.zoom.us/u/DeveloperBot)\
**Post date:** [August 21, 2020, 5:53pm UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/read-contacts-or-write-contacts-now-required/1606/3 "2020-08-21T17:53:30Z")

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Closed on August 21, 2020, 5:53pm UTC