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Hello Philip, Thank you for asking, as it appears this isn't covered in our In-App Purchasing implementation guide. We'll make sure to forward that feedback to the appropriate internal team for consideration. The answer for this would be yes. If you do not include the android.permission.INTERNET permission, your app will crash with a security exception when you attempt to use the In-App Purchasing SDK in your app.

Is this new to 2.0? We have several apps that use IAP 1 and do not have INTERNET permission yet work fine. Doesn't IAP rely on the Amazon AppStore app to do all the Internet communication? If so, then android.permission.INTERNET is not required.

Hi ZigZag, You are right. Technically, you don't need it for IAP alone, however most modern apps need that permission to access the internet for various other functionality (third party analytics, ads, fetching instructions, news, etc). On a related note, if the concern is only about displaying that extra permission to the end user when installing the app, then developers should not worry about it. The INTERNET permission is so essential and basic that it is granted by default and won't even be shown to the end user in the list of primary permissions for the app (I believe this change has been in place since Android Ice Cream Sandwich).