How to remove unnecessary cordova permissions?

Cordova - remove unnecessary permissions
How to remove unnecessary cordova permissions?
Remove not needed permissions from cordova config


When building a project, some of the dependencies plugins add unnecessary permissions.


 We throw the file remove_permissions.js in the folder with the plugins

Example:
<ROOT_PROJECT_PATH>\plugins\cordova-plugin-whitelist\remove_permissions.js


Editing the plugin configuration (plugin.xml)

<platform name="android">
        ....
 <hook type="after_prepare" src="remove_permissions.js"/>
    </platform> 



Also we do with the configuration in the project root

###### remove_permissions.js ##########


var permissionsToRemove = [ "RECORD_AUDIO", "RECORD_VIDEO", "RECORD_VIDEO", "INTERNET" ];

var fs = require('fs');
var path = require('path');
var rootdir = "";
var manifestFile = path.join(rootdir, "platforms/android/app/src/main/AndroidManifest.xml");

fs.readFile( manifestFile, "utf8", function( err, data )
{
    if (err)
        return console.log( err );

    var result = data;
    for (var i=0; i<permissionsToRemove.length; i++)
        result = result.replace( "<uses-permission android:name=\"android.permission." + permissionsToRemove[i] + "\" />", "" );

    fs.writeFile( manifestFile, result, "utf8", function( err )
    {
        if (err)
            return console.log( err );
    } );
} );


Buil Project
cordova build --release android -- --versionCode=1


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