It's a good thing I copied and duplicated all of the private APIs I used into my own project. :)
I understand though, guess I didn't realize that Power Manager was using private APIs. I still think there were better ways to handle this, such as those mentioned above. I'd gladly make the decision at install time to allow an app access to settings. I won't appreciate having to manually change settings all of the time. On Apr 24, 6:32 pm, Romain Guy <[email protected]> wrote: > It's not like we didn't warn developers about private APIs :) > > > > On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 12:44 PM, Tom Gibara <[email protected]> wrote: > > I don't want to single out any particular app, but conversely should a > > developer sell an application that can't be supported in the future because > > it uses an undocumented API? > > Tom. > > > 2009/4/24 Al Sutton <[email protected]> > > >> I wouldn't worry, you can always do a chargeback on your credit card for > >> power manager and Google will approve it through and fine the developer $3 > >> all without asking them... > > >> Nice... Not. > > >> Al. > > >> -----Original Message----- > >> From: [email protected] > >> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of nEx.Software > >> Sent: 24 April 2009 20:01 > >> To: Android Developers > >> Subject: [android-developers] Re: Android v. 1.5 = FAIL #2: Directly > >> Manipulating Settings > > >> So, if I understand this all correctly... Those of us who have paid for an > >> app to toggle settings for us, specifically - Power Manager (which, by the > >> way, is currently the 2nd most popular Paid Application), have thrown away > >> our money since we will be prompted to allow changes for some of the > >> settings every time the application wants to change them? Man, I am glad > >> this app was only $0.99, otherwise I'd be really ticked off. Not to > >> mention > >> that I will not be able to conserve battery life as well as I do now, > >> meaning that this effort to help users conserve battery life actually > >> hurts > >> me (and 10,000 - 50,000 other users who have purchased Power Manager). > > >> On Apr 24, 10:48 am, Tom Gibara <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > > ... The GPS hardware will only actually be powered up> if someone is > > >> > asking to get data from it.... Another way> to look at this -- the GPS > >> > setting is primarily there for > >> > > privacy, to allow users to determine whether is okay -at > >> > > all- for anyone to be getting the fine-grained information about > >> > > where they are. > > >> > So it's really unfortunate that the explanation for the GPS setting > >> > reads: > >> > "deselect to conserve battery", it gives every user I've discussed it > >> > with the impression that enabling the setting will drain their battery > >> > faster independently of what applications choose to do. This is > >> > enforced the absence of similar indications for other settings. > > >> > Tom. > > -- > Romain Guy > Android framework engineer > [email protected] > > Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time > to provide private support. All such questions should be posted on > public forums, where I and others can see and answer them --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
