For
<permission>
The documentation states:
Declares a security permission that can be used to limit access to specific components or features of this or other applications.
Therefore, since you are accessing Android’s permissions, you want uses-permission instead. The documentation for this element states:
Requests a permission that the application must be granted in order
for it to operate correctly.
<permission> is normally used when making a custom permission (e.g. when making an app that other apps can tie in to, limiting access is a must), and <uses-permission> is used when your app actually needs a permission it doesn’t have normally.