On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 3:15 PM, Brad Gies <[email protected]> wrote: > My app uses user groups extensively, and when a user first installs my app, > I would have liked to be able to ask them is they want to check to see if > any of their friends are already registered on my site. To do that, I would > read their contacts (once only) and return a list of the groups their > friends are in to see if they also want to join that group. > > I decided to scrap doing that because I didn't want my app to have to have > the READ_CONTACTS permission whether the user uses it or not, and when they > only use it once if they do use it. > > AND I can think of many other times I've run into the same issue. I really > believe this should be added to all Android permissions... even if it's just > a Grant Once type of option, and then hope that developers don't overuse it > :).
First, that's different than what the previous poster was proposing, IMHO. Second, I'm not quite sure how this runs counter to my post, other than perhaps the "applications will stop requesting permissions" part. I agree that some form of optional/conditional permission scheme would be useful, for your sort of scenario. The core Android team was not convinced the last time this was brought up. -- Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) http://commonsware.com | http://github.com/commonsguy http://commonsware.com/blog | http://twitter.com/commonsguy _The Busy Coder's Guide to *Advanced* Android Development_ Version 1.6 Available! -- 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.
