Flashlight is an Android app developed by ONE App Essentials. (Flat/Rm 603, 6/F Laws Commercial Plaza 788, Cheung Sha Wan Road, KL).

Flashlight first became available on 25 Aug 2012. It is estimated that Flashlight has been downloaded between 500000000 and 1000000000 times from the Play Store.

Flashlight 1.4.0 requires the following permissions:

Allows applications to access information about networks.

Required to be able to access the camera device.

Allows applications to open network sockets.

Allows an application to call killBackgroundProcesses(String).

Allows read only access to phone state, including the phone number of the device, current cellular network information, the status of any ongoing calls, and a list of any PhoneAccounts registered on the device.

Allows using PowerManager WakeLocks to keep processor from sleeping or screen from dimming.