FlashAlerts is an Android app developed by AppX Apps (Hyderabad.). Others apps created by AppX Apps are: Mobile Number Location, Fake Call Prank, Body Temperature Prank.

FlashAlerts first became available on 26 Jan 2015. It is estimated that FlashAlerts has been downloaded between 1000000 and 5000000 times from the Play Store.

FlashAlerts 1.8 requires the following permissions:

Allows applications to access information about networks.

Required to be able to access the camera device.

Allows applications to open network sockets.

Allows an application to read the user's contacts data.

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 read SMS messages.

Allows an application to receive SMS messages.

Allows an application to write to external storage.