Sorry I saw a reply 2 days ago on this thread and apparently hadn't read your old reply so thought it was new.
On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 2:55 AM, Jonas Petersson <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi Dianne, > > I'm not really sure why you brought this up again almost a year after I > asked, but I guess it confirms that this will hardly be in 2.3 (eagerly > waiting...), but I'll still keep hoping for something along these lines at > some later stage. > > The recent browser security hole sort of hints that this would be a good > idea for experienced/paranoid users - I don't really see why the browser > needs read access to my SD card (unless it is for caching which probably > could be safely wrapped to a sandbox in some way) > > Just my few eurocents / Jonas > > > > On 11/27/2010 02:22 AM, Dianne Hackborn wrote: > >> No, no android:optional on <uses-permission>. Semantically that is >> totally different than what am talking about here, which means to still >> allow being installed even if the device doesn't support the library (or >> feature since you can do the same <uses-feature>). >> >> On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 1:43 AM, Jonas Petersson <[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> >> Hi Dianne, >> >> >> Dianne Hackborn wrote: >> >> As of 2.0 I believe there is an additional attribute on >> uses-library that lets you specify that it is optional. >> >> >> This sounds like a really good step. However, I failed to find it >> mentioned in the docs (maybe I'm just looking in the wrong place). >> >> When this works, could we expect it to also work for >> uses-permission, as outlined over a year ago? That would be a really >> good thing too, IMHO. >> >> Best / Jonas >> >> -- >> 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] >> <mailto:[email protected]> >> >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> >> [email protected]<android-developers%[email protected]> >> >> <mailto:android-developers%[email protected]<android-developers%[email protected]> >> > >> >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en >> >> >> >> >> -- >> Dianne Hackborn >> Android framework engineer >> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >> >> >> Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to >> provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such >> questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see >> and answer them. >> >> -- >> 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]<android-developers%[email protected]> >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en >> > > -- > 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]<android-developers%[email protected]> > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en > -- Dianne Hackborn Android framework engineer [email protected] Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and answer them. -- 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
