[android-developers] Using OS 1.6 and Up , are we penalized on the market ?

2010-01-24 Thread Carlo
We are receiving many emails from customers very afraid with the new
SD card permission that will modify their sdcard content. As all
developers know, this permission was granted automatically until OS
1.5 but not anymore. I hope there will be some education now to
the... end user to explain that the new application using the new OS
are not necessary more...dangerous than the previous one.

We feel like penalized to be one of those trying to support new
version of the OS

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Re: [android-developers] Using OS 1.6 and Up , are we penalized on the market ?

2010-01-24 Thread Dianne Hackborn
If you are explicitly supporting 1.6 and up, users are NOT shown these
permissions, since you have set android:targetSdk=4 so the platform will
not automatically add those permissions.

If you have not set the targetSdk to 4 or higher, then you are an older app,
and the platform must automatically give you those permissions, because on
previous versions of the platform there was no restriction on applications
doing these things.

On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 9:13 AM, Carlo ca...@hyperdevbox.com wrote:

 We are receiving many emails from customers very afraid with the new
 SD card permission that will modify their sdcard content. As all
 developers know, this permission was granted automatically until OS
 1.5 but not anymore. I hope there will be some education now to
 the... end user to explain that the new application using the new OS
 are not necessary more...dangerous than the previous one.

 We feel like penalized to be one of those trying to support new
 version of the OS

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