[android-developers] Optional permissions

2011-08-24 Thread Alex Xin
Hello experts, I have a app that could use NFC as one of the communication methods. Bu that is optionally, users still could use other alternative ways to communicate. To use NFC my app needs to add permission android.permission.NFC on my manifest.xml file. But if I do this I believe that users

Re: [android-developers] Optional permissions

2011-08-24 Thread Dianne Hackborn
Permissions don't prevent your app from being available. Required features may be inferred from permissions you request. If you don't actually require the feature, then explicitly request the feature with uses-feature setting the attribute android:required=false. You can always see the features

[android-developers] Optional permissions (revisited)

2009-11-14 Thread Jonas Petersson
Hi all, I know this was discussed on this list about a year ago, but as far as I could tell it ended up with Dianne saying that it may be done, but was not a priority at the time. Situation: I've had a few requests from users of one of my apps that they would prefer to disable for instance

[android-developers] Optional Permissions

2008-12-10 Thread Brad Gies
Is there a way to make a permission optional for the user? I would like my app's user to be able to send emails to their contacts if they want, but don't want them to have to approve the Contacts permissions when the app is installed. What I'd like to do is have a button in the app that