[Noisebridge-discuss] New Android app: Noisegate

[Brian Cloutier]

A quick search revealed this
http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=4101

Your application is compatible with every version of android ever
released (you gave it a version code of 1), and in the early days of
android every app had access to the SD card, so just in case your app
was built back in those days Phone State and Read SD card permissions
are added automatically for backwards compatibility.

If you give it a version code of 4 or greater, which will only cut out
0.1% of all phones, those permissions will no longer be added
automatically.

- Brian

On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 11:50 PM, Josh Juran <jjuran at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Oct 8, 2012, at 11:40 PM, Brian Cloutier wrote:
>
>> Why does it ask for access to the SD card, and to read the phone state? If
>> you're hitting a web service, the only permission this should ask for is
>> internet access.
>
>
> That's an Android artifact.  The app's manifest only declares INTERNET and
> VIBRATOR permissions.  Android itself is adding the other two, under some
> condition I haven't discerned yet.
>
> I'll try to figure out how to prevent that.  I'm also going to publish
> source code tonight, so you'll be able to review the code and build it
> yourself.
>
> Josh
>
>