Curious about this I tried the free spy camera app on the market. I have Cupcake and it made no shutter sound, so I would say, good conspiracy theory but not true in this case.
On Jun 2, 5:39 pm, ivan <istas...@gmail.com> wrote: > Foiled by the nanny state! > > I feel like making a libertarian public service announcement! > > On Jun 2, 9:59 am, Keith Wiley <kbwi...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > I have absolutely no idea if I'm right about this, so this is pure > > speculation...but Google may have "hard-coded" a shutter sound to the > > camera due to security concerns about people taking surreptitious > > photos. In other words, we're all stuck listening to stupid shutters > > sounds now because a few criminals and perverts behave badly and the > > powers-that-be think the best solution is assume that the entire > > population consists of criminals and must therefore be treated as > > such... > > > ...but I ***readily admit*** that I could be completely wrong about > > that. I have only looked at the camera UI a tiny bit so far, and that > > was before 1.5 anyway, so I'm really not up to speed on the current > > camera UI at all. > > > I only mention it because I have heard of similar measures in other > > cases:http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h414/showhttp://www.thetechheral...... > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
