- qt_add_android_permission() is not intended to remove or restrict permissions added by other Qt modules.

• When you manually remove the `<!-- %%INSERT_PERMISSIONS ->` placeholder from the AndroidManifest.xml file, the expectation is that Qt will not add any of its default module permissions.

• Only the permissions explicitly added via qt_add_android_permission() should appear in the final manifest. However, the observed behavior is that no permissions are being added, even those specified with the function call.

The suspected cause is a bug in the androiddeployqt tool. It seems to first create a combined list of permissions (evaluating whether to use the default or the user-defined permissive version) and then checks for the `` placeholder. Because the placeholder is missing, the tool ends up writing nothing from its pre-compiled list to the manifest.