Cedric and Craig - I'm right with you on this. I think your proposed solution would make a big difference. I've been wondering about this issue ever since a program I was trying out for the first time surprised me and uploaded my GPS location to a public map without asking me.
I tried to initiate a discussion about this a while back but got frustrated when my comments were not well received and it seemed none of the platform developers were willing to discuss a solution. If there is ongoing work to implement something like this then I'd like to know about it. If there are key issues impeding such a necessary solution, then I'd like to know about it as well so we can help fix them. If people don't agree it's a good idea, we should talk about it in order to come up with an ideal solution. The lack of such control makes it difficult for me to trust many of the apps in the market. That's bad for Android. So let's hear some discussion. Sam On Feb 10, 12:53 am, Cédric Berger <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 06:32, plusminus <[email protected]> wrote: > > > If you have 5 permissions and the user can toggle each of them you > > might have to handle 2^5 cases in your code =/ (worst case) > > Not necessarily. First, of course this is a worst case, often you can > deal with each permission individually. > > But anyway I also wish I could deny some permissions to a program even > if this program does not handle this well. > > - by denying a permission it requests, when installing, I know I can > break normal functionning > - it covers the case a permission is asked but not used (because > programmer did not care enough...), or used in parts of the program I > never use. > - at worst the program will crash. Ideally at least correct warning > should occur when trying to access resource under denied permission. > - denying internet access to an application should (ideally) not be > worse that allowing it but not having internet connectivity. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Discuss" 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-discuss?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
