Re:Fisher Price Chatter Telephone with Bluetooth
by krageon on Wednesday December 01, 2021 @06:36AM
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Yes, if you run an android version with root there are frameworks for doing this. That said, some apps detect when things are too static and won't necessarily work even with these workarounds.
Re:Fisher Price Chatter Telephone with Bluetooth
by xmprt on Wednesday December 01, 2021 @08:42AM
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This should be built into the operating system. Didn't Android (or maybe it was iOS) add a feature recently where you can set your camera to be a black screen unless you explicitly give permission to the app even if you gave permission to the app earlier?
Re:Fisher Price Chatter Telephone with Bluetooth
by krageon on Thursday December 02, 2021 @07:01AM
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> This should be built into the operating system
I agree, but I doubt it will happen. It was already a battle to get the permissions in android as fine-grained as they are. Even though they are fine-grained now, the permissions don't mean anything when every app demands that you give it everything it asks for (even though it clearly does not need them to work).
Could these things be virtualized? And provide a fixed location, silent sound, and an empty contact list to whatever applications you don't trust?