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Re:Android phones are sending significant amount of user dat... by Arnt on Tuesday October 12, 2021 @10:04AM (#28839792)
Sounds like an attempt at phrasing for the general public.

Android apps have zero or more activities, each of which may be thought of as a single screen and a single Intent, which is a bit like a URL (and sometimes very much like a URL). A messenger or email app will typically have a main activity, an activity to view a single message, an activity to view a conversation with someone, perhaps an activity to view a single attached image, probably an activity to view and edit the application's settings, and so on.

What is sent is perhaps the app's name and a class name within the app for each activity that's started.

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Re:Android phones are sending significant amount of user dat... by dr_kiszonka on Tuesday October 12, 2021 @11:23AM (#28840846)
Exactly right. And you don't have to be a system app to access this information. Any app with sufficient permissions granted explicitly by a user can access these data (no root needed), and it may have legitimate reasons for doing it.
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