Android's Local Network Definition says a local network "excludes
cellular (WWAN) or VPN connections", which reads as: an app reaching its
server through WireGuard needs no ACCESS_LOCAL_NETWORK. Both projects
reach their server through WireGuard, so both had a reason to delete it.
Measured on a real device on 2026-08-28: the permission is still
required, and without it the traffic is dropped. The documented exclusion
does not hold for a tun carrying an RFC1918 destination.
The note goes here because this is the one function a person would read
before removing the permission, and because neither project can find this
out for itself -- the API 36 emulator images both are tested against do
not enforce the permission at all, so removing it passes every test
available locally and fails only on the phone.
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