No it just means that there is permissions infrastructure not that they intend t...

chinpokomon · on May 6, 2014

Multiple user account had a similar pre-release. It wasn't initially meant to be seen, but the crafty users a lot of Android developers are, we figured out how to start using it. A future update of Android made it a regular feature. Same with Apps2SD, although the community design wouldn't work for most users, the Android saw value in the project and came up with a solution that was more user friendly.

I wouldn't be surprised if Android v.next had this feature built-in, but it might require a newer API version.

scep12 · on May 5, 2014

That's fair. I thought it seemed too polished to be an internal debugging tool, but perhaps I'm being overly optimistic. I guess we'll see.

rasz_pl · on May 5, 2014

no need to change APIs, just let AppOps insert shim between apps and API calls and return empty datasets instead of null/failing whole calls.

Let that app ask for my location, but let me define location it returns when I refuse real location. Same for contacts/messages.

jessaustin · on May 5, 2014

...let me define location it returns when I refuse real location.

This would destroy some apps, e.g. Ingress.

pgeorgi · on May 5, 2014

In a sense it already does: there were instances of Ingress players "moving" from place to place at 200km/h or so during rush hour in London.

IMHO it's better if developers know about fake data so they can factor them in, using plausibility checks. As is, they seem to assume that the data source is real.

rasz_pl · on May 6, 2014

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.lexa.fakeg...

I just wish there was a central place that would let me do this per ap for all permisions.