X Corp. · X is a social networking app that hosts real time conversations, news, live events, and community discussions worldwide.
This mobile application serves as a social networking and microblogging platform focused on real-time information dissemination and social discovery. The application architecture prioritizes user onboarding and secure authentication through a multi-modal gateway, supporting telephony-based, email-based, and handle-based credentialing. It integrates social graph construction tools by allowing users to synchronize contact metadata for account discoverability while maintaining privacy-centric configuration options.
Written from a FlyTrap agent exploring the app on a real device, not from the store listing. It covers only the screens that run reached, so anything behind a login, paywall or region lock is absent.
21 SDKs found across 15 categories. Click any SDK to see every other app that uses it.
69 permissions requested at runtime. Colors reflect platform sensitivity tier.
Read the user's contacts data.
Write files to shared external storage. No-op for apps targeting Android 11+.
Read phone state, network info, and the device's phone number.
Take pictures and record video.
Record audio from the microphone.
Read the list of accounts known to the device.
Connect to paired Bluetooth devices.
Access exact location via GPS, cell, and Wi-Fi.
Access approximate location (network-based).
Read files from shared external storage. Replaced by READ_MEDIA_* on Android 13+.
Read image files from shared storage.
Read video files from shared storage.
Post notifications to the system.
Access only photos and videos the user explicitly selected.
Modify global audio settings.
Open network sockets.
Control the vibrator.
Keep the device awake.
Read connectivity information.
Run a foreground service.
Required for foreground services of type camera.
Required for foreground services of type mediaPlayback.
Required for foreground services of type mediaProjection.
Required for foreground services of type microphone.
Connect to paired Bluetooth devices on Android 11 and below.
Draw windows on top of other apps. Granted from system settings.
Required for foreground services of type dataSync.
Act as the AccountAuthenticator for the AccountManager.
Manage accounts in the AccountManager.
Request authentication tokens from the AccountManager.
Read account sync settings.
Write account sync settings.
Read Wi-Fi connection information.
Authenticate using biometric hardware.
Authenticate using fingerprint hardware.
Change network connectivity state.
Use Google Play Billing for in-app purchases and subscriptions.
What FlyTrap detected inside X.
This mobile application serves as a social networking and microblogging platform focused on real-time information dissemination and social discovery. The application architecture prioritizes user onboarding and secure authentication through a multi-modal gateway, supporting telephony-based, email-based, and handle-based credentialing. It integrates social graph construction tools by allowing users to synchronize contact metadata for account discoverability while maintaining privacy-centric configuration options. This comes from a FlyTrap agent exploring the app on a real device, so it covers only the screens that run reached.
X by X Corp. is built with Cordova / Ionic. FlyTrap determined this by analyzing the app's compiled binary, not from anything the developer published.
FlyTrap detected 21 third-party SDKs inside X, including Firebase Analytics, Firebase Cloud Messaging and Firebase Crashlytics. They span areas such as Analytics, Push Notifications, Crash Reporting and Ads. The full list, grouped by category, is on this page.
X requests 69 permissions. 14 of these are sensitive, such as Read contacts, Write storage and Read phone state. Each is listed above with its platform sensitivity tier.
FlyTrap reports what an app contains, it does not issue a safety verdict. X requests 69 permissions (14 sensitive) and bundles 21 third-party SDKs. Reviewing those alongside the developer helps you decide what you are comfortable granting.
The version FlyTrap analyzed targets Android.
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