Introducing Android 9 Pie

Re:Introducing Android 9 Pie by maxxxxx on Monday August 06, 2018 @03:40PM (#17700999)

I hope that the permissions are better to understand and control than the current ones. Right now they seem to be designed to give the appearance of giving users control but the implementation is pretty bad and user unfriendly.

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Re:Introducing Android 9 Pie by Latteland on Monday August 06, 2018 @05:47PM (#17702055)

And the other problem is you install an app all the time and the permissions aren't clearly laid out. I want:

1. tell me I install an app that wants "some list of permissions".

2. let me disable this permission for all apps installed now and in the future.

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Re:Introducing Android 9 Pie by on_and_off on Monday August 06, 2018 @08:56PM (#17703081)

1) it is not really realistic in practice:

- Permissions are requested incrementally at runtime. For large apps, a LOT of these permissions depend on corner cases BUT you still declare all the permissions you might ask for.

So maybe I will declare that I might ask to see the content of your screen .. because there is an help menu where I take a video of your screen to send to support after asking you for the permission.

Same for camera .. we might use Google Pay for most cases, but in one of the countries where we have the app, a local player has a very popular solution that scans your credit card. So we declare that we might need Camera because of this sdk.

Etc.

This is one of the reasons why the previous model where you asked the permissions at install time did not work very well in practice.

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Re:Introducing Android 9 Pie by izacus on Monday August 06, 2018 @06:15PM (#17702246)

Anything targeting API level 23 has all permissions denied by default (and targeting higher level is mandatory for all new apps right now).

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Re:Introducing Android 9 Pie by maxxxxx on Monday August 06, 2018 @06:20PM (#17702275)

I would also like to give permissions only for a limited time and see a log how the permissions are being used in detail.

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