Android M Developer Preview and Tools • Hacker News Board

Re: Android M Developer Preview and Tools

#151

Post by ufmace » Sat, May 30, 2015, 7:34 PM UTC

magicalist wrote: post #101

on_and_off wrote: post #83

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The app needs to target M in order to access to these granular permission. An app targeting a lower API level will work in legacy mode where it gets its permissions at install time, like before. I guess it makes sense in order to give enough time to the devs to update their apps to this new system. As long as the checking/warning becomes more aggressive in N, I am fine with that choice.

According to the session after the keynote, you'll still be able to at least go back and revoke permissions individually for apps targeting older API levels.

I just tried it on the AVD image. It gives you a warning when you revoke a permission for an app built on the older API.

Re: Android M Developer Preview and Tools

#152

Post by ufmace » Sun, May 31, 2015, 12:41 AM UTC

esrauch wrote: post #71

zserge wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Oh, finally I'm not alone here! I use vim/tmux and yesterday I discovered Buck and made a quick project generator: http://zserge.com/blog/buck-build-system.html

I feel like I would take more than 8 extra seconds just writing out and correcting the package names in imports than I would gain by trying to write Java in vim, and I'm saying that as someone who otherwise uses vim/tmux for everything.

I'm liking vim/tmux for Ruby, but for Android Java, so far, the AS plus IdeaVim combo seems nicer than anything I've put together with vim and tmux. Project-wide autocomplete and auto-adding imports plus the debug support is such a time-saver.

Re: Android M Developer Preview and Tools

#153

Post by socceroos » Mon, Jun 01, 2015, 6:11 AM UTC

Manishearth wrote: post #133

socceroos wrote: post #114

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Then please, oh please separate it out. Internet and Advertising. Shouldn't be hard.

> Shouldn't be hard. How can the OS tell if an HTTP request is for the Internet or for Ads? It can't. Though Google could special-case AdMob effectively owning the ad scenario for apps which don't use the internet for anything else.

That's what I meant. It covers a good ~95% of all ads. Have any extras register for security exemption. Makes sense to me - in the context of not screwing the user over constantly.