No, Secrets by Roger Tawa Jr
On Jul 27, 6:51 pm, Chris Palmer <[email protected]> wrote: > Do you mean Secrets by Brandon Stecklein? That is not a Google app. It uses > Coarse Location and Internet permissions; if it can access email or SMS > messages that would he a problem. Are you saying that it can? > > On Jul 26, 2010 1:27 PM, "sharedwd" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > >> 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- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text -
