New app permissions in Android. Nice.
Edit: Asks when needed, not at install time. Focus on the web with Chrome custom tabs looks good too. I only got 5.1.1 today but 6? (M...) looks great from the small amount seen so far.
Edit: Asks when needed, not at install time. Focus on the web with Chrome custom tabs looks good too. I only got 5.1.1 today but 6? (M...) looks great from the small amount seen so far.
App permissions and copy/paste changes are welcomed, but I got a sense they finally caved in and just copied how some other mobile OS handles it (which is not bad, since it was always better there).
Just because somebody has Twitter installed (or their carrier pre-installed it), doesn't mean they necessarily want to use the official app.
I noticed last week that Google search in Chrome on Android already does something similar — I searched for somebody and got a Twitter profile link. Clicking it led me to the Play Store to install the official Twitter app instead of allowing the intent system to open it in Falcon Pro. Though hopefully that's just related to Google's recent Twitter partnership.
Now there's a toggle, "Open supported links without asking", with a list of domain names that the app supports.
So you can keep the old "which app do you want to use to handle this intent" behaviour by turning off supported links for apps you don't like (e.g. Twitter).
And the "granularity" of the permissions seemed on par with the permissions categories they introduced to Play a while back. Meaning that once you ok the use of, say, speakers, the same app can get access to anything inside the same category of permissions...
It would be nice if you could switch an expert mode switch and individually toggle every single permission, not just categories.
I hope "phone" includes phone number, as Android has a bad track record of leaking your cellphone number to every single app (and ad network) that you install.
I doubt it does, as Google had made it quite clear they don't consider your cell phone number personal information (but DO consider your email address). I am just waiting until it blows up in their faces, when spammers and scammers start utilising the hole.