Great feature indeed, now people hopefully no longer complain that they need to turn on "unknown sources" system-wide.
Still, I guess even when F-Droid gets this special permission, it will still need to show the PackageInstaller UI for updating apps. Cheers Dominik On 03/22/2017 03:28 AM, Nathan of Guardian wrote: > Just saw this new feature in Android O: > http://www.androidpolice.com/2017/03/21/android-o-feature-spotlight-model-installing-apps-unknown-sources-changed/ > " each app now must be granted the install source permission for APK > installation" > > What this means is the a user will be prompted grant a specific app, in > our case F-Droid, permission to install APKs, as opposed to the enabling > "unknown sources" forever. > > This a huge exciting opportunity for legitimizing decentralized app > hosting, without compromising a user's security. So cool. > > Now if only it didn't take years for the latest Android release to get > traction... :( > > +n > >
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