On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 2:40 PM, Vikas Mahajan <[email protected]> wrote: > Very disappointed. About how much percentage of users normally root > their phones? Can you comment on this?
I would guess 0.001%. Bear in mind that there are a *lot* of Android devices out there, owned by a lot of people who think that "root" is the portion of a tree that is underground. >> I hope not, because that would be a serious security hole. > Please explain a little bit more. How can we consider it as secure > hole if the user manually allows the app by giving > WRITE_SECURE_SETTINGS permissions at installation time? I am not > getting it. I was responding to this statement of yours: >>> Also, please tell if there is some another way of doing proxy settings >>> in unrooted android devices? You will notice that this statement does not mention WRITE_SECURE_SETTINGS. IMHO, you were asking how to hack a phone to replace the proxy server setting without the user's knowledge. That would be a significant security hole. -- Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) http://commonsware.com | http://github.com/commonsguy http://commonsware.com/blog | http://twitter.com/commonsguy Android App Developer Books: http://commonsware.com/books -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
