Awesome UX: "one active application and one frozen screenshot." Who's ready for a desktop replacement? http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2016/09/one-year-later-can-android-7-0-nougat-save-the-pixel-c/ …
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Well, they finally exposed this in Marshmallow. For legacy apps, it just shows a warning for the first perm toggle.
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Just an example of how paranoid they are about this. They're happy to make breaking changes, but for new API levels.
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An app might do something profoundly stupid like uploading contacts in a way you can't easily reverse. Who knows.
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Which should be grounds for banning from Play store.https://twitter.com/CopperheadOS/status/775121015504564224 …
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They sometimes get away with breaking compatibility (hidepid=2, stricter SELinux, dropping non-PIE support, etc.).
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They're very willing to break native code, but the opposite is true for pure Java apps using only documented APIs.
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Some examples of the outrage they are happy to endure: https://trac.ffmpeg.org/ticket/4928 , https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=205565 ….
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It's because of Android that FFmpeg got rid of ARM text relocations, since they dropped them in 32-bit API level 23.
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