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 access to the phonebook and GPS (for 
paranoia presumably). This would disable some interesting features in my 
app, but it would still be useful in simple cases.

As it is now, I'd have to release two versions of the application with 
99% of the code identical (could probably make it 100% really with some 
effort and just have different manifests). This is suboptimal. Having 
certian permissions listed as optional in the manifest and then checking 
for them during execution would be a lot better.

My opinion is:
Most users don't seem to be particularly bothered so having the current 
intall dialog as a default would be fine, but then add a button for 
detailed tuning, where permissions that are flagged as optional can be 
toggled. (Toggling these for an already installed app is a separate 
question.)

Other opinions?

                        Best / Jonas

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