Re:Previewing Android P
by squiggleblaz on Wednesday March 07, 2018 @05:23PM
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Yes. There's so many apps that want to manage my SMSes just so they can authorise. It's a nice and convenient feature, but they only need to authorise once. Why should they have permission to manage my SMSes for days and weeks and years afterwards? Short-term permission would be nice, and should be the default. If the app needs the permission for a second session, then it should potentially receive it permanently.
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There is API specifically for that - https://developer.android.com/reference/android/telephony/Sm...
I'm torn about this. Every time an app has used this API, it's been a delight. And yet I hesitate to encourage more people to use SMS as auth!
Re:Previewing Android P
by srinathrajaram on Thursday March 08, 2018 @01:04AM
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This is available only on Android O and the adoption is not encouraging. Hopefully, P will have a much better uptake.