Re: [android-developers] Getting Owner and Contact Data

2011-02-09 Thread Kevin Duffey
Heh..I started using that owner permission too.. glad to know it will be gone (or is it gone in 2.3?). Question is, when a person buys a new android phone, at least on Verizon, they generally can attach the phone to a google account. Is there some way to get that particular users info, or is the

Re: [android-developers] Getting Owner and Contact Data

2011-02-09 Thread Dianne Hackborn
There is not a phone's e-mail address. If the user downloaded your app from Market, they must have a Google account set up, but they may have multiple accounts. And anyway, that account is part of the Google services; this is not something that is part of the actual Android platform. On Wed,

Re: [android-developers] Getting Owner and Contact Data

2010-09-07 Thread Dianne Hackborn
Android has no concept of an owner. Those permissions don't do anything (and will be gone in the next release). On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 12:11 PM, Dritan djdea...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I'm writing an app on to make use of the owner's data (first, last, email(s), phone(s)) and one or more

[android-developers] Getting Owner and Contact Data

2010-09-03 Thread Dritan
Hello, I'm writing an app on to make use of the owner's data (first, last, email(s), phone(s)) and one or more contacts the owner can choose. The application will find common patterns and whatnot. I have given my app READ_CONTACTS, WRITE_CONTACTS, READ_OWNER_DATA, WRITE_OWNER_DATA permissions in

[android-developers] Getting Owner and Contact Data

2010-09-03 Thread Dritan
Hello, I'm writing an app on my IO Magic to make use of the owner's data (first, middle, last, email(s), phone(s)) and one or more contacts the owner can choose. The application will find common patterns and whatnot. I have given my app READ_CONTACTS, WRITE_CONTACTS, READ_OWNER_DATA,

Re: [android-developers] Getting Owner and Contact Data

2010-09-03 Thread Dianne Hackborn
Note that the platform doesn't actually have a concept of the owner, and in fact the READ_OWNER_DATA and WRITE_OWNER_DATA do not protect anything or are associated with any API. Actually I just removed them from the next release because they didn't do anything... On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 11:01 AM,