[android-developers] Re: Is there a way to request permissions from a user as you need them?

It turned out to be a big issue for our app too. We have several
comments from concerned customers why we need this and that
permission. Many permissions are needed only to execute specific and
often rare feature like we pre-fill customer's email address when
sending request to customer service. So it would be way better if we
could dynamically quire that permission explaining why we need it when
customer invokes "Email customer service" option. We could also handle
the case when customer denies us this permission, we would just leave
e-mail edit box blank and let him or her type it in.

On Aug 28, 6:43 pm, Mark Carter <mjc1...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> I've just released an app that requires READ_CONTACTS for the sole
> purpose of displaying names instead of phone numbers (of SMS
> messages). Its really not necessary at all but just looks better.
> Being able to specify that permission as optional would be much
> better. If the user rejects it then the app can happily just show the
> phone number instead.
>
> On Aug 29, 12:04 am, Chris Stratton <cs07...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
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> > On Aug 28, 4:00 pm, Dianne Hackborn <hack...@android.com> wrote:
>
> > > Sorry but you are wrong.  When my wife got her Droid and started installing
> > > apps, she quickly came to me asking about a game she was installing that
> > > said it would read her contact data.  She knew what that meant, and wasn't
> > > happy about it, and decided not to install the app.
>
> > She should have had the option of installing the app without that
> > questionable permission.
>
> > Right now, such sensible user control is only available to those who
> > can modify the .apk, ie geeks..- Hide quoted text -
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> - Show quoted text -

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