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The article documents the feature rather than naming this package, so the tie between the two rests on the label and is an inference.\n\nIn our sample it is recorded only on Samsung devices. Where this site holds signer data, it is signed by a Samsung OEM key that also signs the Android framework, a platform-level key. Its requested permissions include CAMERA, RECORD_AUDIO, FOREGROUND_SERVICE_CAMERA, FOREGROUND_SERVICE_MICROPHONE, INTERNET, the Bluetooth scan, advertise and connect permissions, and a permission named com.samsung.android.permission.HW_RESOURCE_SHARE that is also requested by com.samsung.android.hwresourceshare.storage (Storage Share); this site cannot establish which package declares that permission. This site aggregates permissions across observations rather than per build, so which builds request which permissions cannot be established.\n\nVersion note: Samsung gives One UI 6.1 as the minimum for Camera Share. This site has observed this package on devices reporting API 34 to 37, and this site's roll-up reports versions from 1.2.01.38 to 1.9.00.9. How those observations line up with One UI releases is not something these records establish.\n\nFor Android Enterprise, EMM and kiosk use, no enrolment or management role is identified in the sources cited here. If this package is the Camera Share component its label indicates, it lets another Samsung device signed in to the same Samsung account use the phone as a webcam, which may be relevant where camera use is restricted by policy; whether an EMM camera restriction also stops Camera Share could not be sourced. 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