sreichholf / dreamDroid

DreamDroid is an open-source enigma2 client for android based devices.
https://dreamdroid.org
GNU General Public License v3.0
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Dependencies and privacy questions #93

Closed ghost closed 7 years ago

ghost commented 7 years ago

Hi I'm running dreamDroid on a google free device, I use the apk(s) from here (/app), I always get a toast notification when starting the app, something like 'Billing service is not available'

Why is that? Why this needs billing service?

Also, sometimes I see firewall logs of connection attempts made by dreamDroid to outside the LAN zone (that end being blocked). I have usage statistics disabled.

Why these connections??

That said, where's the privacy policy for this app?

Btw, why the target platforms are only "DreamBox"? This will actually work on any Enigma2 stb with the OpenWebIf installed.

Thanks for your time.

sreichholf commented 7 years ago

Why is that? Why this needs billing service? Billing service is only used for donations. As you may have realized it works fine without. You can use the amazon-version which is "play service free" and doesn't pop up that message all the time (I'm not sure I've built the amazon flavor of the latest version but i can do that the next time I'm building an official release).

Why these connections?? You have the version with play services (google flavor). I'm very certain it will try to connect google over and over again. The amazon "Flavor" shouldn't do that If it still does please tell me, I'll have a look at it then!

That said, where's the privacy policy for this app? https://dreamdroid.org/privacy.html (this one is quite short and a bit outdated I'll fix that)

And in the App in (About -> Privacy) which is this string: https://github.com/sreichholf/dreamDroid/blob/master/app/res/values/strings.xml#L314

Btw, why the target platforms are only "DreamBox"? Because there are known issues issues with OpenWebIf. And even though this is my private project, I am still employed by Dream, which makes me not wanna include explicit support for others.

ghost commented 7 years ago

Okay, many thanks for the explanation.

sreichholf commented 7 years ago

You're welcome