Re: [android-developers] Reducing Permissions

2010-09-01 Thread Brad Gies
Yes, a contact picker would be great, and would work for me ;), especially if it had the ability to return multiple selections. I would actually like that better than accessing them myself, if it was a standard part of the framework, because then users would be familiar with it, and I wouldn

Re: [android-developers] Reducing Permissions

2010-09-01 Thread Dianne Hackborn
On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 10:18 AM, Brad Gies wrote: > I still want an "ask the user" optional permission for the read contacts > because even though my app will drop using them for now, it would be a very > handy feature for them. Just so you know, my app is about connecting with > friends, and bei

Re: [android-developers] Reducing Permissions

2010-09-01 Thread Brad Gies
Actually, you are correct. Many of the permissions don't show to the user. It's been awhile since I installed the app from the internet, but I do have it installed as a draft in the market, so I was using the market stats (silly me... ). This apk requests 13 permissions that users will be wa

Re: [android-developers] Reducing Permissions

2010-09-01 Thread Tauno Talimaa
On 1.09.2010 11:36, Dianne Hackborn wrote: On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 1:37 PM, Brad Gies > wrote: Now... I also want to use the camera (optional) and vibrate (optional but most users will want it) so I have to add : Here again, vibrate is a normal

Re: [android-developers] Reducing Permissions

2010-09-01 Thread Dianne Hackborn
On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 1:37 PM, Brad Gies wrote: > > I've been following the "Is there a way to request permissions from a user > as you need them?" thread with a lot of interest, but even if someone is > convinced to make the Android permissions system better, it doesn't do > anything for right

Re: [android-developers] Reducing Permissions

2010-08-31 Thread TreKing
You're not going to like this, but since no one else is chiming in ... =) On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 3:37 PM, Brad Gies wrote: > So... the question is : Is there a robust way to use Google Maps, and be > able to send requests to my server without all those permissions (in a user > friendly way) ? >

[android-developers] Reducing Permissions

2010-08-30 Thread Brad Gies
I've been following the "Is there a way to request permissions from a user as you need them?" thread with a lot of interest, but even if someone is convinced to make the Android permissions system better, it doesn't do anything for right now. So, I thought I'd start a thread for coming up wi