On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 9:00 AM, deg <[email protected]> wrote: > Actually, I can imagine two very common cases: > > 1) Code or even functionality is changed in an application, possibly > in some minor way. The developer does not realize that he has removed > the last SDK call using a permission. The permission lingers on in the > manifest. It doesn't do much harm, but add minor bloat and maybe > scares aways some users. >
I wouldn't call this common since if you're removing permissions you're likely removing features / functionality which relied on said permission, which is not very likely. > 2) A developer adds a new feature, and does not realize that a > permission is needed. Best case, he catches this immediately when > testing, but still wastes time and annoyance on an extra compile/ > deploy/test cycle. > You answered your own question. If you're adding a new feature, I would hope you're testing it. Odds are you don't just do one compile / deploy test cycle for any feature you add, so one more to catch a permission you forgot to add, like any other programming error you catch while debugging, is negligible. You'd run into a "permission required" exception almost immediately while testing and you fix it right then and there. > It seems that it would not be too hard to annotate the SDK and and a static > permissions check to the build cycle. > I really don't think the time it would take to make this happen is worth it versus how much time it would actually save. You seem to think it is, so you are welcome to grab the source code and modify it to make this happen. Good luck. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TreKing - Chicago transit tracking app for Android-powered devices http://sites.google.com/site/rezmobileapps/treking -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
