I received a pop up in which Android Studio requests permission to access my microphone.
For as far as I know, there are no voice command features in Android Studio.
I found this rather odd and I hope someone knows why my IDE wants to acces my microphone.
It's the Android emulator. The emulated phone has a microphone, so the emulator uses your computer's microphone to emulate it.
Feel free to deny access to your microphone; the emulator will work fine—except for its microphone, of course.
EDIT: monocasa on HN explained in more detail:
It just enables the microphone at emulated device instantiation time. Easier than enabling/and disabling it at runtime.
