## How it currently **CAN** be done
During my morning routine reading my RSS feeds, I stumbled on a review at [N-Droid](http://www.n-droid.de/apefs-android-apps-nach-zugriffsberechtigungen-filtern.html), discussing an app named [APEFS](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.unisiegen.informatik.bs.apefs). This app is developed by German students (hence its description on the Playstore is in German, even if you set the language to English). But for our non-German readers, a short description here:

Basically, *APEFS* is an alternative front-end to the Google Playstore. You browse the playstore as you do with the original app, and search it the same. But when on the results list<sup>[1]</sup>, an advanced filter<sup>[2]</sup> comes into play:

![APEFS search results][1] ![APEFS filter][2]

As the second screenshot shows, you can select what permissions your wanted app is permitted to have (checkbox marked), and what permission it should *not* have (checkbox unchecked).

However: While this can be used to filter out apps with unwanted permissions (e.g. show only apps whitout the Internet permission), you can not restrict your results to the opposite (e.g. show only apps *with* Internet permission). The app clearly targets at users concerned about their privacy/security -- and according to the review (I just found it a couple of minutes ago, so I could not test it yet) it does a very good job.

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**EDIT:**

As it's already a year ago, and the promise on the [APEFS Homepage](http://www.bs.informatik.uni-siegen.de/forschung/apefs) ([GTransed](http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=&sl=auto&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bs.informatik.uni-siegen.de%2Fforschung%2Fapefs&sandbox=1) to English, as their own English version doesn't have that statement in the first paragraph) seems not to be fulfilled anytime soon (the app is still offline): Please consider the web-based solution from [my other answer](https://android.stackexchange.com/a/69964/16575) as an alternative meanwhile.

  [1]: https://i.sstatic.net/paLBn.jpg
  [2]: https://i.sstatic.net/MWiUt.jpg