com.google.android.soundpicker Copy

A Google-signed app whose English label on this site is "Sounds", with localised equivalents in other locales. No Google documentation naming this package was found, so what follows is assembled from the package name, a community build file and the AOSP component of the similar name, and the tie between them is an inference. The Open GApps build project defines a module called GoogleSoundPicker with the package name com.google.android.soundpicker, installed as a privileged app and set to override the AOSP SoundPicker module. That is one community packaging project's build file rather than a Google source. The AOSP SoundPicker it overrides there is com.android.soundpicker, documented separately on this site: its manifest declares a RingtonePickerActivity handling android.intent.action.RINGTONE_PICKER, an action the Android developer reference describes as one that "Shows a ringtone picker". On that basis this package is likely to be Google's replacement ringtone and sound picker, but whether it handles that action on a given build could not be confirmed from the sources cited here. This site records it requesting, among others, READ_MEDIA_AUDIO, MODIFY_AUDIO_SETTINGS, VIBRATE, ACCESS_NOTIFICATION_POLICY, INTERNET and DOWNLOAD_WITHOUT_NOTIFICATION, plus Google-specific permissions named for a haptic provider and for adaptive vibration. This site aggregates permissions across observations rather than per build, so which builds request them cannot be established. Version note: this site records the package on API levels 31 to 37, on Google devices and emulator images plus one HP model, with version names from 2.8 to 3.4, and the site's roll-up counts 47 observations carrying the updated-system-app flag. No change of role across Android releases could be sourced. The three signers recorded are classified as Google keys and none of them is recorded signing any other package in this site's data. For Android Enterprise, EMM and kiosk fleets no management role is identified in the sources cited here. If it is the sound picker its name and the build file above indicate, disabling it would be expected to affect the screens where a user chooses a ringtone, notification or alarm sound, but the effect could not be established, so no rating is given.

• modules/SoundPicker/Android.mk - Open GApps aosp_build →
• SoundPicker AndroidManifest.xml (main) - Android Open Source Project →
• RingtoneManager.ACTION_RINGTONE_PICKER - Android Developers →
• Package provenance for com.google.android.soundpicker - Android System App Database →

• Signed by Google's own signing key (the same key Google uses across devices), so it is a Google-provided preinstall that updates independently of the system image, though 3 different Google signing keys appear across the fleet. This certificate spans 4 device makes - the hallmark of a globally distributed Google key.
• Its largest observed manifest declares 13 permissions: 3 runtime (user-granted), 6 install-time and 4 vendor or uncatalogued.
• APK size ranges from 4.5 MB to 7.4 MB across the reporting device profiles, so the build differs substantially between them.
• Reported as an updated system app in 48 of 59 observations - a newer build was installed over the one in the system image. Multiple observations can come from the same device profile.