2 Answers

• Well this will be removed within the next mobilesdk release see: Bug report

  Otherwise the only way is to create your custom Manifest.xml file.

• for those still running pre-1.8.x sdk, you can apply the patch yourself. Note: its usually terrible to modify a framework yourself, but the risk of that message to users outweighs that imo.

  File: Titanium/mobilesdk/osx/1.7.5/android/builder.py
  (note this varies by OS and version)

  @@ -653,11 +653,15 @@ def generate_android_manifest(self,compiler):
  653     653    
       # NOTE: these are built-in permissions we need -- we probably need to refine when these are needed too
  654     654    
       permissions_required = ['INTERNET','ACCESS_WIFI_STATE','ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE', 'WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE']
  655     655    
  
  656          
  -    GEO_PERMISSION = [ 'ACCESS_COARSE_LOCATION', 'ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION', 'ACCESS_MOCK_LOCATION']
        656    
  +    GEO_PERMISSION = [ 'ACCESS_COARSE_LOCATION', 'ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION']
  657     657    
       CONTACTS_PERMISSION = ['READ_CONTACTS']
  658     658    
       VIBRATE_PERMISSION = ['VIBRATE']
  659     659    
       CAMERA_PERMISSION = ['CAMERA']
  660     660    
       WALLPAPER_PERMISSION = ['SET_WALLPAPER']
        661    
  +
        662    
  +    # Enable mock location if in development or test mode.
        663    
  +    if self.deploy_type == 'development' or self.deploy_type == 'test':
        664    
  +      GEO_PERMISSION.append('ACCESS_MOCK_LOCATION')
  661     665    
  
  662     666    
       # this is our module method to permission(s) trigger - for each method on the left, require the permission(s) on the right
  663     667    
       permission_mapping = {
  

  source: https://github.com/appcelerator/titanium_mobile/pull/445/files