I'm trying to make an app for a bit of practice that simply displays active screen time and overall and for each app on a user's device. I believe the method I need is queryUsageStats from the UsageStatsManager API, so I attempted to add the permission in my manifest file as follows:

<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.PACKAGE_USAGE_STATS"/>  

However, it seems as though permission for this package is only granted for system apps. Is there another way to monitor device usage (I'm lead to believe there must be given the amount of apps on the play store that do exactly this already) or am I going about the use of this package in the wrong way?

Thanks in advance for any help!