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Android 11 beta is available now

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Re: Android 11 beta is available now

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Post by bleah1000 »

mmastrac wrote: post #3

Been seeing a few app crashes on the Android 11 betas. Hopefully they've been addressing API bustage. Unfortunately the Android bug tracker seems to be a black hole for reports.

Here's the dirty little secret of app crashes on Android: many of these apps use some pretty horrid drm code that will only run on known versions of Android. So every new version of Android, you get a crash because it doesn't recognize the new version until the drm is updated.

If this is a game that's crashing on start-up, I would guess 90% of the time the app is the problem.

Re: Android 11 beta is available now

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Post by mmastrac »

bleah1000 wrote: post #4
mmastrac wrote: post #3

Been seeing a few app crashes on the Android 11 betas. Hopefully they've been addressing API bustage. Unfortunately the Android bug tracker seems to be a black hole for reports.

Here's the dirty little secret of app crashes on Android: many of these apps use some pretty horrid drm code that will only run on known versions of Android. So every new version of Android, you get a crash because it doesn't recognize the new version until the drm is updated. If this is a game that's crashing on start-up, I would guess 90% of the time the app is the problem.

These are normal apps, unfortunately, crashing at or near startup. I believe that Google made some changes to JNI in Android 11 and most of the crashes are in native code.

Re: Android 11 beta is available now

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Post by godelski »

But will my weather always show in the clock now instead of randomly? (The "At a glance that's on the homescreen, shows the date, weather, upcoming events etc. Frequently it just shows the date for me and drops weather info)

And do we really need bubbles? Do people actually like those? I always found that annoying.

Re: Android 11 beta is available now

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Post by louib »

In my opinion the highlight here is the addition of the "Only this time" option when granting permissions to an app. I'm wondering though if this new privacy feature is only available for the 3 permission types listed in the post.

> With one-time permissions you can grant apps access to your microphone, camera or location, just that one time. The next time the app needs access to these sensors, it will have to ask you for permission again.

Re: Android 11 beta is available now

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Post by julesallen »

louib wrote: post #7

In my opinion the highlight here is the addition of the "Only this time" option when granting permissions to an app. I'm wondering though if this new privacy feature is only available for the 3 permission types listed in the post. > With one-time permissions you can grant apps access to your microphone, camera or location, just that one time. The next time the app needs access to these sensors, it will have to ask yo…

Have you tried Bouncer? https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.samruston....

Re: Android 11 beta is available now

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Post by bleah1000 »

mmastrac wrote: post #5
bleah1000 wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Here's the dirty little secret of app crashes on Android: many of these apps use some pretty horrid drm code that will only run on known versions of Android. So every new version of Android, you get a crash because it doesn't recognize the new version until the drm is updated. If this is a game that's crashing on start-up, I would guess 90% of the time the app is the problem.

These are normal apps, unfortunately, crashing at or near startup. I believe that Google made some changes to JNI in Android 11 and most of the crashes are in native code.

I have never seen anything but a native crash for drm code issues. I would be willing to bet some type of drm is still the problem here.
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