On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 11:08 PM, Zsolt Vasvari <[email protected]> wrote:
> If it's doable with the Settings app, it should be doable from your > app. You may have to use reflection or whatever to get to the APIs > and no gurantee of future compatibility, but that's the trade-off. > That's not true. The settings "application" runs with special privileges to allow it to interact with core parts of the system. (Actually it runs with the same uid as the system itself.) More, parts of it run in different processes, or are even implemented in different .apks, to be able to touch the things it needs to. -- 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
