On Sat, Jun 1, 2013 at 3:39 PM, Marten Gajda <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I have an existing app A that's already installed by a couple of users and > I have developed a new app B that has a content provider and custom > permissions for access control. Now I want to add optional support for that > new content provider in app A. > > Just adding a <uses-permission> tag to app A won't work because all users > would have to install app B before they upgrade to the new app A. Otherwise > the new permission is not granted with the following message: > > W/PackageManager( 201): Not granting permission > my.package.permission.**PERMISSION_X > to package my.other.package because it was previously installed without > Hello Marten, I'm slightly confused at this point. The above log message sounds to me as if you defined your permission in app A and requested it in app B - the other way around compared to what you explanation above seems to suggest. At any rate, if you define your permission in app B (using the <permission> element) and request it in app A (using the <uses-permission> element) it should work. If app A is installed before app B you should just see a log message stating that the custom permission is unknown. This is fine as app B who defines it is not installed yet. As soon as you install it the permission is defined by B and granted to A. Which Android version are you testing on? My question is: Is that guaranteed to work in future Android releases? Is > there a chance any future Android version will complain about the duplicate > definition of the permission? This is something I'd like to know too. I"m not hopeful though Google tells us before stuff breaks... -- -- 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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
