> The user will see when installing an app that it can access their SMS > messages, and there is no way for the application to get to them without > this being reported. > Dianne Hackborn > Android framework engineer > [email protected]
Except, as in one case with the Google app "Secrets" and many others, if the app is built for Android OS earlier than 1.6 (or 1.5?). For example, I'm running 2.1-update1 on a Motorola Droid, and the only way I see that Secrets also has Network communication and Phone State/ Identity permissions is run a permissions app like aSpotCat. The Market does not tell me Secrets has those two permissions assigned to it, even if it doesn't utilize them. Thoughts? Jim On Jun 25, 3:31 pm, TreKing <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 12:40 PM, Dan Hein <[email protected]> wrote: > > Is Google doing ANY policing of applications on Android Market? > > It seems so, but extremely quietly - hell, they apparently don't even tell > the developers whom they pull from the Market WHY they were pulled. > > Also, see this > post:http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2010/06/exercising-our-remote-... > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > TreKing - Chicago transit tracking app for Android-powered > deviceshttp://sites.google.com/site/rezmobileapps/treking
