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App Permissions are for device information or api information?

I'm studying https://docs.clover.com/clover-platform/docs/permi...

I was told that to build a custom tender I would have to access the Order information and request the Order Read permission on the Edit app screen described at https://docs.clover.com/clover-platform/docs/worki...

Now I'm confused. Would the android clover app be reading order information from the local device or the clover REST api?
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App permissions are enforced both on the device and at REST endpoints.

In most cases you'll prefer using OrderConnector from the SDK to retrieve and update order information. That's going to be the most up to date. If you are running on the device and get order information from the server you run the risk of the data being out of sync. For example, if you POSTed a change to an order through the REST API, that won't be reflected locally on the device to other applications until the device gets around to syncing the data.
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Ok so it sounds like there is the Order read permission. But order information can be read in two ways:

1. locally via the OrderConnector in the clover-android-sdk

2. over HTTP against clover's REST api

I think I'll go with the first as you suggest as I'm building a custom tender that is launched from the Sale app.

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