I too think this change is a bad idea and will decrease the user's experience with my application.
I am surprised that Android's security model asking for permissions when every application is installed is tollerated while WIndows Vista basically doing the same thing in a simpler way receives howls of protest. Additionally, I don't think the average teenager or grand-mother knows what any of the fine grain permissions in Android mean and will just go ahead and allow any app to have the permissions it wants. Being somewhat knowledgable, I wonder if the app is using the permission for the stated purpose or does it do more than it says. On Apr 24, 7:19 am, chrispix <[email protected]> wrote: > While I read the blog here > :http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2009/04/future-proofing-your-a... > I almost had a heart attack. Having a location based application, the > number one issue we had was being able to automatically turn on / off > GPS based on an application setting. Which quite frankly makes some > sense. > > Having to prompt the user each time to turn on / off gps is a giant > pain from the standpoint of program flow. > > I have used our applications setting to actually turn GPS off, because > it was faster to open our app and close the app, and turn off GPS. > Rather than opening the settings, and doing it that way. > > I hope you have updated the market so we can respond to all the > negative feedback regarding having to manually enable GPS/disable > GPS. > > The coding change is not the matter. The fact that a useful function > was taken away. Can't there be some way to code GPS state to an > application state? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
