Scan News is an Android app developed by nextmining (nextmining@gmail.com).

Scan News first became available on 28 Jul 2014. It is estimated that Scan News has been downloaded between 500000 and 1000000 times from the Play Store.

Scan News 1.3.6 requires the following permissions:

Allows applications to access information about networks.

Allows applications to open network sockets.

Allows an application to read from external storage.

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 an application to record audio.

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

Allows an application to write to external storage.