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They've actually set the number of permission groups to 8. But at least you can accept/decline each individually. EDIT: The permission groups are Location Ca

They've actually set the number of permission groups to 8. But at least you can accept/decline each individually. EDIT: The permission groups are Location Camera Microphone Contacts Phone SMS Calendar Sensor

e40 11y ago
What I see missing, that Xposed + App Ops gives me is the "Keep Awake"... having revoked this permission from almost all non-Google apps, my battery life is a full 50% longer than other people with my phone report.
- digi_owl 11y ago
  Best i can tell, Doze is supposed to cover that automatically. But then Doze will wake the device up if a GCM priority notification comes down the wire. And i expect Facebook and the rest to start spamming those to make sure they get every nanosecond of your life to their servers.
  - e40 11y ago
    Yeah, I don't see Google allowing me to stop Facebook (and others) from constantly checking for updates, etc.
    - devsquid 11y ago
      Settings>Data Usage>Click app>Disable Background data. Not ideal, but it works if its really an issue. Actually FB does not consume much bandwidth unless you are using it.
rentnorove 11y ago
Conspicuously absent: - Read external storage - Internet
- vardump 11y ago
  Can't agree more. It always bothers me all apps can access my external storage by default. But I have to use Android, because it's the most open established mobile ecosystem. Only system that supports the mobile web browser I find tolerable to use for instance (hint - it's not the default browser or Chrome). Only system that allows developers to map executable pages. Only system that allows me to customize user experience as I see fit, and not offer one size fits all. And so on.
- Aldo_MX 11y ago
  Application YourTypicalMobileApplication is asking for access to the Internet to display advertisements powered by Google AdMob. [ D̶E̶N̶Y̶ ] [ ALLOW ] (Do you think we would give you the option to easily cut our income?)
  - socceroos 11y ago
    Then please, oh please separate it out. Internet and Advertising. Shouldn't be hard.
    - Manishearth 11y ago
      > Shouldn't be hard. How can the OS tell if an HTTP request is for the Internet or for Ads? It can't. Though Google could special-case AdMob effectively owning the ad scenario for apps which don't use the internet for anything else.
      - socceroos 11y ago
        That's what I meant. It covers a good ~95% of all ads. Have any extras register for security exemption. Makes sense to me - in the context of not screwing the user over constantly.
- digi_owl 11y ago
  I guess they consider external storage to be already handled by the Storage Access Framework. As for Internet, they leave that out of their "improved" Play store permissions as well (and the M groupings seems like a carbon copy).

e40 11y ago

What I see missing, that Xposed + App Ops gives me is the "Keep Awake"... having revoked this permission from almost all non-Google apps, my battery life is a full 50% longer than other people with my phone report.

digi_owl 11y ago
Best i can tell, Doze is supposed to cover that automatically. But then Doze will wake the device up if a GCM priority notification comes down the wire. And i expect Facebook and the rest to start spamming those to make sure they get every nanosecond of your life to their servers.
- e40 11y ago
  Yeah, I don't see Google allowing me to stop Facebook (and others) from constantly checking for updates, etc.
  - devsquid 11y ago
    Settings>Data Usage>Click app>Disable Background data. Not ideal, but it works if its really an issue. Actually FB does not consume much bandwidth unless you are using it.

rentnorove 11y ago

Conspicuously absent: - Read external storage - Internet

vardump 11y ago
Can't agree more. It always bothers me all apps can access my external storage by default. But I have to use Android, because it's the most open established mobile ecosystem. Only system that supports the mobile web browser I find tolerable to use for instance (hint - it's not the default browser or Chrome). Only system that allows developers to map executable pages. Only system that allows me to customize user experience as I see fit, and not offer one size fits all. And so on.
Aldo_MX 11y ago
Application YourTypicalMobileApplication is asking for access to the Internet to display advertisements powered by Google AdMob. [ D̶E̶N̶Y̶ ] [ ALLOW ] (Do you think we would give you the option to easily cut our income?)
- socceroos 11y ago
  Then please, oh please separate it out. Internet and Advertising. Shouldn't be hard.
  - Manishearth 11y ago
    > Shouldn't be hard. How can the OS tell if an HTTP request is for the Internet or for Ads? It can't. Though Google could special-case AdMob effectively owning the ad scenario for apps which don't use the internet for anything else.
    - socceroos 11y ago
      That's what I meant. It covers a good ~95% of all ads. Have any extras register for security exemption. Makes sense to me - in the context of not screwing the user over constantly.
digi_owl 11y ago
I guess they consider external storage to be already handled by the Storage Access Framework. As for Internet, they leave that out of their "improved" Play store permissions as well (and the M groupings seems like a carbon copy).