Removing duplicate permission from AndroidManifest.xml - android

The AndroidManifest.xml contains these (and some more) permissions:
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.GET_ACCOUNTS" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.READ_PROFILE" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.READ_CONTACTS" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_WIFI_STATE" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE" />
The WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE is contained two times. So I remove one and reorder:
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.GET_ACCOUNTS" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.READ_PROFILE" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.READ_CONTACTS" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_WIFI_STATE" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_COARSE_LOCATION" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.RECEIVE_BOOT_COMPLETED" />
The audio recorder (https://github.com/3llomi/RecordView) normally requests storage access permission and microphone access permission. But after the change it does not request the storage access anymore and therefore the record view does not work.
I uninstall the app from the device for each manifest change to reset permissions.
How is it possible that removing a duplicate line causes this?


The merged view of the AndroidManifest.xml revealed that another library also declares this permission with maxSdkVersion="18":
The app was running on API>18, I assume therefore it did not request the permission. Removing maxSdkVersion made the storage permission appear again and the recorder view worked:
<uses-permission
android:name="android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE"
tools:remove="android:maxSdkVersion" />
My guess is that because WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE was contained two times in the AndroidManifest.xml, the manifest merging process added the maxSdkVersion only to one of them. The other WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE had no maxSdkVersion hence the app was requesting the permission also on API>18.

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ADDED from [com.google.firebase:firebase-common:11.2.2] /Users/jakubkomorowski/.gradle/caches/transforms-1/files-1.1/firebase-common-11.2.2.aar/7f3b39613ed1e03ef066f866e7495b17/AndroidManifest.xml:6:79-143
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