Thanks for the reply That doesn't really help I want to limit the access based on the package name. The package name will have different signature from my App. I added android:readPermission and android:writePermission to the content provider but what is the use, any package can add these two permissions and still access the content provider I think Android is missing the access limitation...
any other way??? On Jul 14, 2:23 am, Dianne Hackborn <[email protected]> wrote: > By far the easiest way is to do this based on app certificates -- just use > android:readPermission and android:writePermission in the manifest, and > declare the permission you are using there with <permission> to be > android:protectionLevel="signature". Then only apps signed with the same > certificate as your own will be able to get the permission, and thus able to > read/write the provider. > > On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 6:27 PM, AndroidKing <[email protected]> wrote: > > > is there an easy way to limit my content provider access to only one > > or more packages > > I don't want other packages to access my data > > > I looked at grantUriPermission but its not straight forward and it > > doesn't work > > > any ideas? > > -- > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
