On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 5:57 PM, mrqzzz <marcus.ob...@gmail.com> wrote: > I red in these discussion groups that you cannot programmatically turn > on/off the GPS : Mark Murphy was exhaustive, as always.
Ummm...is exhaustive a good thing? > But i found a 3rd party App, in the market, that creates a widget > capable of switching the GPS on/off. > > How did they do it? If they are enabling and disabling the GPS, they found a security exploit and are exploiting it. That's only supposed to be allowed to be done by system applications. -- Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) http://commonsware.com | http://github.com/commonsguy http://commonsware.com/blog | http://twitter.com/commonsguy Android Training...At Your Office: http://commonsware.com/training -- 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