Permissions Archives

Android M Feature: Apps Manager is Simpler, Yet Insanely More Powerful

Kellen June 1, 2015 24

One of those back-end sets of changes in Android M that I think you are going to really love has to do with the new App Manager or "Apps" section in Settings. In previous versions of Android, this section included three columns of "Downloaded," "Running," and...

Google Might Soon Let You Hand-Pick Permissions When Installing Apps

Kellen May 7, 2015 65

According to a report out of Bloomberg, Google will introduce pretty cool new privacy controls at Google I/O this month, which is a fancy way of saying that they are about to let you pick and choose which permissions are given to an app before you install it. ...