this suuuuuuucks I can understand googles reasoning behind this but this is way to extreme. Why not make it so the user can decide if they want an app to be able to access these settings or not. Sure there are some apps out there that switched things on and off without the user knowing. But there are PLENTY more apps that did this with the user knowing why ruin it for everyone because of a few bad apples. There are a lot of smart people working for google surely they can come up with a better solution than this. Im going to be lost without powermanager.
On Apr 24, 11:30 pm, "nEx.Software" <justin.shapc...@gmail.com> wrote: > It's a good thing I copied and duplicated all of the private APIs I > used into my own project. :) > > I understand though, guess I didn't realize that Power Manager was > using private APIs. > I still think there were better ways to handle this, such as those > mentioned above. > I'd gladly make the decision at install time to allow an app access to > settings. > I won't appreciate having to manually change settings all of the time. > > On Apr 24, 6:32 pm, Romain Guy <romain...@google.com> wrote: > > > > > It's not like we didn't warn developers about private APIs :) > > > On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 12:44 PM, Tom Gibara <m...@tomgibara.com> wrote: > > > I don't want to single out any particular app, but conversely should a > > > developer sell an application that can't be supported in the future > > > because > > > it uses an undocumented API? > > > Tom. > > > > 2009/4/24 Al Sutton <a...@funkyandroid.com> > > > >> I wouldn't worry, you can always do a chargeback on your credit card for > > >> power manager and Google will approve it through and fine the developer > > >> $3 > > >> all without asking them... > > > >> Nice... Not. > > > >> Al. > > > >> -----Original Message----- > > >> From: android-developers@googlegroups.com > > >> [mailto:android-develop...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of nEx.Software > > >> Sent: 24 April 2009 20:01 > > >> To: Android Developers > > >> Subject: [android-developers] Re: Android v. 1.5 =FAIL#2: Directly > > >> Manipulating Settings > > > >> So, if I understand this all correctly... Those of us who have paid for > > >> an > > >> app to toggle settings for us, specifically - Power Manager (which, by > > >> the > > >> way, is currently the 2nd most popular Paid Application), have thrown > > >> away > > >> our money since we will be prompted to allow changes for some of the > > >> settings every time the application wants to change them? Man, I am glad > > >> this app was only $0.99, otherwise I'd be really ticked off. Not to > > >> mention > > >> that I will not be able to conserve battery life as well as I do now, > > >> meaning that this effort to help users conserve battery life actually > > >> hurts > > >> me (and 10,000 - 50,000 other users who have purchased Power Manager). > > > >> On Apr 24, 10:48 am, Tom Gibara <m...@tomgibara.com> wrote: > > >> > > ... The GPS hardware will only actually be powered up> if someone is > > > >> > asking to get data from it.... Another way> to look at this -- the GPS > > >> > setting is primarily there for > > >> > > privacy, to allow users to determine whether is okay -at > > >> > > all- for anyone to be getting the fine-grained information about > > >> > > where they are. > > > >> > So it's really unfortunate that the explanation for the GPS setting > > >> > reads: > > >> > "deselect to conserve battery", it gives every user I've discussed it > > >> > with the impression that enabling the setting will drain their battery > > >> > faster independently of what applications choose to do. This is > > >> > enforced the absence of similar indications for other settings. > > > >> > Tom. > > > -- > > Romain Guy > > Android framework engineer > > romain...@android.com > > > Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time > > to provide private support. All such questions should be posted on > > public forums, where I and others can see and answer them --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
