[guardian-dev] XPrivacy for Android

[Mark Murphy]

On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 10:44 AM, Daniel McCarney
<daniel at binaryparadox.net> wrote:
> Devices running 4.3+ have an "App Ops" screen that lets you track/veto certain
> permissions. It isn't accessible by default but there is an open source app in
> F-Droid[1] called "launch-app-ops" that allows it to be accessed. The source
> code is on github[2].

They have since commented out the AppOps activity from the manifest,
so devices updated with that revised Settings app will not have access
to AppOps.

https://github.com/android/platform_packages_apps_settings/blob/master/AndroidManifest.xml

That being said, one would imagine that something AppOps-ish will
arrive in some future version of Android.

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