I think it's definitely option 3, as everything appears to work but I then live in fear that it can die at any random point in the future.
I think I'll give the client the option with a strong opinion that they really should include it and if they take the risk to exclude that is up to them! Cheers, Jamie On Tuesday, January 8, 2013 12:28:12 PM UTC, Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) wrote: > > I haven't tried withholding that permission. You are welcome to give > it a shot. I see three possible outcomes: > > 1. You crash immediately, just as you will if you do not have the > <uses-feature> element for OpenGL ES 2.0, as Maps V2 checks some of > this stuff as part of its initialization. > > 2. You crash almost immediately, when Maps V2 goes to store data on > external storage and fails due to not having the permission. > > 3. You succeed today, but will still have the possibility of #1 or #2 > in future updates to the Play Services library. > > On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 3:58 AM, Jamie <[email protected] <javascript:>> > wrote: > > The official documentation for MAPS API v2 states the following: > > > > Besides permissions required by other parts of your application, you > must > > add the following permissions in order to use the Google Maps Android > API: > > > > android.permission.INTERNET Used by the API to download map tiles from > > Google Maps servers. > > com.google.android.providers.gsf.permission.READ_GSERVICES Allows the > API to > > access Google web-based services. > > android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE Allows the API to cache map > tile > > data in the device's external storage area. > > > > My client has requested that we do not use the WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE > > permission. So my question is, is it really true that this permission is > > mandatory when using the Maps V2 API and will bad things happen if I > don't > > include it? Since the mapping functionality is not a key feature of the > > application I am more than happy to take any hit with regards to lake of > map > > cacheing. > > > > Many thanks, > > > > Jamie > > > > -- > > 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]<javascript:> > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > [email protected] <javascript:> > > For more options, visit this group at > > http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en > > > > -- > Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) > http://commonsware.com | http://github.com/commonsguy > http://commonsware.com/blog | http://twitter.com/commonsguy > > Localized Android Question-and-Answer Sites: http://www.andglobe.com > -- 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
