1. As an Android app developer, I particularly object to the "Read Phone State and ID" permission - often used to get a unique ID for the device - but also grants access to the owners mobile phone number (could be sold to spammers that call me). Very few apps need the phone number, just the ID of the device. Such a wide permission that probably is abused. When I document my apps, I always list every single permission and exactly why the app needs it - transparency is a good thing.
2. There is an app you can get that turns off permissions for apps. As someone else stated, it would cause a crash in that part of the code - so you have to hope the developer accounted for that and gracefully degrades to compensate. 3. Poorly written apps On Friday, 21 June 2013 03:14:15 UTC+1, Ivan Padarev wrote: > > Hi I would like to contact android developers, and ask them : > 1.Why an app in order to run will want so much access to so many things, > that are not part of it function???? > 2. Why there is only one accept for all the permissions???? must be > separate for different things and anyway going back to the first > question????? > 3. Why all the apps must work on background if I don't use them all the > time, but once a week or so and use my RAM without any reason.????? > I want a rule that an app must not work on the background unless permitted > strictly by the user and even to work only when I use them and when I close > the app to stop working at all. I want to have enough free RAM for the > things I use. Also some apps work secretly on background even if they are > marked as "don't work on background" I need someone to fix this. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Security Discussions" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to android-security-discuss+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to android-security-discuss@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-security-discuss. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
