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:
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> >> 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-...
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