Have you explained in your app description what you are requesting sdcard access for?
On Jan 24, 2:36 pm, Carlo <ca...@hyperdevbox.com> wrote: > Yes, but that is not my point : if you need to write to external data > storage (the sdcard) then the permission seems to be granted > automatically if your app is under 1.5 (or lower) so the end user does > not feel like.."hey you are going to write to my sdcard" and he does > feel secure (even if it is not true at all because this permission is > granted without his knowledge and application is probably going to > write freely to the sdcard), however, the exact same application > using 1.6 , MUST add the permission and then the user must accept > it.... but, the way it is presented, specially that the application > could modify the content of the sdcard makes the user feel like this > 1,6 application is less secure than the previous one and might refuse > to install it (which is the case we are facing), so you have better > chance in the market having a 1.5 application than a 1.6 or higher, > unless you dont need to access the sdcard, i am not calling this very > good for pushing new OS application...... > > On Jan 25, 4:45 am, Dianne Hackborn <hack...@android.com> wrote: > > > If you are explicitly supporting 1.6 and up, users are NOT shown these > > permissions, since you have set android:targetSdk="4" so the platform will > > not automatically add those permissions. > > > If you have not set the targetSdk to 4 or higher, then you are an older app, > > and the platform must automatically give you those permissions, because on > > previous versions of the platform there was no restriction on applications > > doing these things. > > > On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 9:13 AM, Carlo <ca...@hyperdevbox.com> wrote: > > > We are receiving many emails from customers very afraid with the new > > > "SD card permission" that will "modify" their sdcard content. As all > > > developers know, this permission was granted automatically until OS > > > 1.5 but not anymore. I hope there will be some "education" now to > > > the... "end user" to explain that the new application using the new OS > > > are not necessary more..."dangerous" than the previous one. > > > > We feel like "penalized" to be one of those trying to support new > > > version of the OS.... > > > > -- > > > 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<android-developers%2Bunsubs > > > cr...@googlegroups.com> > > > For more options, visit this group at > > >http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en > > > -- > > Dianne Hackborn > > Android framework engineer > > hack...@android.com > > > 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 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
