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9 years ago Thanks for the issue, it seems to be a source of stress for many people. So
I'll answer here :).
When I started to write the app, I added to the app manifest a lot of rights in
order to be sure to be not limited when I write some piece of code.
It was not so easy to debug when the error was only a security issue, so adding
a lot of rights was just a convenience to speed up my devs.
The location right is one of this right I added and that is absolutely not used
by the code.
I noticed this point was commented on the android market, so I recently have
removed it just after 0.00-12. So 0.00-12-2 and -12-3 available on
googlecode/downloads and the future 0.00-13 will not require this right anymore.
Btw, even if the right is asked in 0.00-12, there is absolutely no code that
requires your location data. So no extra battery consumption on this side and
no privacy infos diffuse to the world :).
There is other improvements to be done to improve battery usage but gps is not
one of those.
I'll left this task open until 0.00-13 will be out on the market in order to
allow other users to understand why gps is asked and to not be afraid about it.
Original comment by r3gis...@gmail.com on 20 Jul 2010 at 6:02
- Changed state: Accepted
- Added labels: Type-Other
- Removed labels: Type-Defect
Original issue reported on code.google.com by
IamTheFijon 20 Jul 2010 at 3:14