Re: [android-developers] Still trying to get my head around permissions - can anybody help?

Thanks Mark,

Yes, it is public. I did give the DEVICE_POWER permission to my app, but
still get the security exception when I call the goToSleep function. Somebody
said it was a level 2 (signature) permission, so ordinary 3rd party apps (ones
that don't hold the same signature as the API) can't use it. I assumed that
was correct, since that's the only explaination I could come up with as to why
I get the security exception when my simple test app calls that function.
This is all in the emulator, BTW.

What I was really looking for was some documentation about which permissions
are at what level.

Best Regards,

Richard

On Wednesday 16 June 2010 16:52:21 Mark Murphy wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 4:39 PM, Al <alcapwn2k@googlemail.com> wrote:
> > Richard C. Cox wrote:
> >> Yeah, goToSleep may be restricted in the API, but it says nothing about
> >> that in the SDK Documentation.
> >
> > Non-public APIs aren't mentioned in the sdk documentation. They may be
> > documented in the source code but suppressed from javadoc with @hide.
>
> Actually, goToSleep() is public, just only accessible for applications
> that hold the DEVICE_POWER permission. The need for that permission is
> not documented there, which is simply a documentation bug.

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