Similar to what we came to know in Android, Bada also requires your app to have specific privileges to be able to perform certain operations. On install a user must know and confirm the privileges that are needed by your app to function correctly. So far I have identified 44 different privilege groups that have to be defined in the manifest.xml, giving your app the corresponding permissions.

Here they are:

1. ADDRESSBOOK – This privilege is needed in the Osp::Social namespace and required to perform a set of addressbook-specific operations, like adding or searching contacts
2. ADVANCED_SEARCH – needed in the OSP::Content namespace by the RemoteAdvancedSearch class, that performs a set of searching operations on the remote bada server
3. BLUETOOTH – Opening and closing connections as well as transfer operations over the bluetooth channel. Needed in Osp::Net by the Bluetooth class
4. BOARD_SERVICE – Used in Osp::Social::Services namespace. It allows you to perform certain operations on the remote bada server, like creating and managing discussion boards
5. BUDDY_SERVICE – This one is also part of the Osp::Social::Services namespace. It allows you to manage the buddies of a user on the remote bada server
6. CALENDARBOOK -Part of Osp::Social namespace. It allows you to manage events and to-do’s in the calendar of a user
7. CAMERA – belongs to the Osp::Media namespace and allows you to switch on/off the camera device, capture images, set effects, flash and a lot of other cool stuff
8. COMMERCE_STORE – as a part of Osp::Commerce namespace, it is a privilege that allows you to integrate easy commerce and in-app-buying functionality into your applications
9. CONTENT_TRANSFER – belonging to Osp::Content, it includes a bunch of content download/upload rights
10. COOKIE – belongs to Osp::Net namespace and allows you to perform a few cookie removal operations
11. DIRECTORY_SERVICE – belongs to Osp::Locations namespace and allows to perform geographically constrained searches of places of interest, products, services, etc.
12. DRM_CONTENT – includes a set of methods to get information and permissions related to DRM protected media, hence the Osp::Media namespace (Pirates don’t like this Arrrr! )
13. GEOCODING_SERVICE – Also a part of Osp::Locations. Gives you app the rights to convert coordinates to addresses and vice versa
14. HTTP – Osp::Net namespace, many HTTP related functions depend on this provilege
15. IMAGE – Osp::Media, allows you to perform a set of image input and output operations
16. LANDMARK – within Osp::Locations namespace, this privilege allows you to manage landmarks (aka geographic places of cultural interest )
17. LIFELOG – Sounds scary but is in fact much less sinister . This privilege , for example, gives a certain Lifelog class from the Osp::Social namespace to get a few statistics related to specific calls. E.g. their duration, amount, etc.
18. LOCAL_CONTENT – gives you the right to manage local content (as opposed to REMOTE_CONTENT), used within the Osp::Content namespace
19. LOCATION – naturally belonging to the Osp::Locations namespace, this privilege allows you to get the location of the device, monitor a geographic area, etc.
20. MAP_SERVICE – similar to the privilege above, this one gives you the right to get and render maps from specific map service providers
21. MESSAGING – belongs to the same-named namespace Osp::Messaging, it allows your app to send email, SMS and MMS messages
22. MESSAGING_SERVICE – allows your application to send custom messages between devices
23. NET – opens some DNS and Net Access Points related management functionality within your app. Osp::Net namespace
24. NET_ACCOUNT – similar to the one above, allows you to create, delete and update Net Accounts
25. NET_STATISTICS – similar to the other two above, this privilege gives you the green light to read Net specific statistics
26. NOTIFICATION – belongs to the Osp::App namespace and allows you to send notifications to the user about some event within your app (e.g. a new message has arrived)
27. PRIVACY_SERVICE – belongs to Osp::Social::Services and allows the app to manage some privacy-related aspects of the user’s bada-server profile
28. PROFILE_SERVICE – similar to the one above, allows you to search profiles and update profile of a user
29. PUSH_MESSAGING – rights for bada-specific Push-messages management
30. RECORDING – privileges needed by the Audio and Video Recorders within the Osp::Media namespace
31. REMOTE_CONTENT – gives you the right to manage remote content (as opposed to LOCAL_CONTENT), used within the Osp::Content namespace
32. REMOTE_LANDMARK – similar to LANDMARK rights, but refers to management functionality of information stored on a remote landmark store
33. REMOTE_LOCATION – rights associated with the location of other users, similar to LOCATION
34. REMOTE_TRACE - similar to the one above, but goes further. Gives you the right to request accumulated device locations of a specific target
35. ROUTE_SERVICE – Osp::Locations, allows you to request a route from A to B from a specific service provider
36. RSS – Osp::Content, rights to subscribe and un-subscribe from diverse rss feeds
37. SNS_SERVICE – needed by the SnsGateway from Osp::Social::Services. This gateway is an interface to diverse social services providers like Twitter
38. SOCKET – Osp::Net::Socket namespace, in case you need some lower-level socket functionality one day
39. SYNC_SERVICE – Osp::Device, needed to get information about the synchronization process between the device and a PC
40. SYSTEM_SERVICE – essential if your app is hungry for some system and runtime specific info like the memory or battery levels
41. TELEPHONY – actually this one does not let you perform calls just yet. Only read some information that you most probably will not need anyway. Osp::Telephony
42. WEB_PRIVACY – needed if you want the web history data to ba available to your app
43. WEB_SERVICE – a must-have if you want to use the Web browsing control
44. WIFI – allows yoou to perform a few WiFi specific operations

Note: as the SDK is not public yet, this list is subject to change. This post has been a little “dry”, but you will need these things. I thought it was a good idea to unite this information on one spot somewhere.

Related posts:

1. Bada API namespaces overview
2. Displaying a Map in a bada application
3. Working with Files and Directories in Bada (part 1)