MineCraft Sweeper is an Android app developed by K.Misiunas (Churchill college, CB3 0DS, Cambridge, UK).

MineCraft Sweeper first became available on 25 Jan 2012. It is estimated that MineCraft Sweeper has been downloaded between 500000 and 1000000 times from the Play Store.

MineCraft Sweeper 3.1 requires the following permissions:

Allows applications to access information about networks.

Allows applications to open network sockets.

Allows an application to read from external storage.

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 access to the vibrator.

Allows using PowerManager WakeLocks to keep processor from sleeping or screen from dimming.

Allows an application to write to external storage.