AKB48 is an Android app developed by Excite Japan Co., Ltd. (〒106-0047 東京都港区南麻布3-20-1).

AKB48 first became available on 16 Dec 2011. It is estimated that AKB48 has been downloaded between 500000 and 1000000 times from the Play Store.

AKB48 2.1.5 requires the following permissions:

Allows applications to access information about networks.

Allows applications to access information about Wi-Fi networks.

Required to be able to access the camera device.

Allows applications to change Wi-Fi connectivity state.

Allows access to the list of accounts in the Accounts Service.

Allows applications to open network sockets.

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 write to external storage.