Stand corrected, thanks. On Dec 16, 5:33 pm, Dianne Hackborn <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
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