Just to amplify a bit on Dianne's point, Android is a heterogeneous
system that includes subsystems that were originally open source,
third party proprietary IP (much of which is now open source), Google
propietrary IP, and new IP that was created by Google specifically for
Android. Some of these
happy to report that MediaRecorder, at least, helpfully logs --
11-07 15:39:08.848: ERROR/AudioFlinger(33): Request requires
android.permission.RECORD_AUDIO
-- when an attempt to record is made without the proper permission.
bravo! i live in hope that all of Android logs such messages someday.
On Oct 10, 11:56 am, Jason Proctor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Android permissions are enforced in the Linux kernel? really? i'm
> interested as to how this is done, is there any info up anywhere?
Yes, all security is enforced at the kernel and hardware level, via
process isolation, uid isolatio
nao e presiso
Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2008 14:45:15 -0700From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
[android-developers] Re: polite request for better error messages
Thanks for your feedback Jason...those error messages aren't meaningful
enough. The engineers are working on improving the
On Oct 9, 11:25 pm, Jason Proctor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> the android error situations i'm talking about are not even close to
> this. the network connection error i specified is an android
> permissions error, which is a long way above the kernel. but still,
> android only sees fit to provid
Yes, absolutely the errors should be better detailed, mainly on the
compiling and conversion phase, when you cannot insert a try catch and
print the error message : (
Adriano Crestani
On Oct 9, 6:53 pm, hackbod <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> It is true that the messages should be better, but usual
It is true that the messages should be better, but usually they aren't
very good because it's not as simple as "somebody knew but decided not
to tell." For example, in the case of trying to connect to a socket:
the connection request is rejected deep down in the kernel, and by the
time it even ge
Thanks for your feedback Jason...those error messages aren't meaningful
enough. The engineers are working on improving the error messages in
general..
It would be helpful though if you can log specific package/class or API
related error message issues in the public issue tracker...in that way it
Wrap the issue in a try catch block and log the exception. You'll get
much more detailed info.
On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 4:32 PM, Jason Proctor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> dear google, any chance of better error messages from the android
> classes? usually, the java frameworks have nice develope
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