Obviously, the calculator app needs camera permission for scanning complex formulas that would otherwise require lengthy manual input and calculating them automatically.
Weather app asking for permission to manage calls
Submitted 1 year ago by sag@lemy.lol to [deleted]
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Lath@kbin.social 1 year ago
tahoe@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I mean, you can download one in 10 seconds if you really need one (or use Spotlight)
MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 1 year ago
Friendly reminder to my Android peeps that f-droid.org rocks!
I think I open up the google play store like twice a year.
MaxVoltage@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Had to get a Gallery app from there last week
gstore idea of gallery app is ads in your stolen pictures
greencactus@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Seriously, is that how far we came?
laughs in LineageOS
But seriously folks, you can survive without Google Play Store. While it definitely is sometimes not easy and there are obstacles put in your way, after a certain time you learn to accommodate. And I have a peace of mind knowing that no one is selling my pictures to data foraging companies God knows where.
basxto@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
Majority of the stuff there should be on play store too.
Emerald@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I open F-Droid like every week just to know what’s new. Found some cool apps that way. I’ll drop some recommendations here:
Thumb-Key
Quasseldroid
QRAlarm
Audile
LifeOfChance@lemmy.world 1 year ago
You know what’s also annoying AF? The number of apps that keep asking permissions when you open then. Doesn’t matter how many times you say no.
ohlaph@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Yeah, NordVPN does that now if you have notifications turned off. I turned them off because I would get notifications that were basically ads. Now, I have to dismiss their “please turn notifications on” screen every time I open it up. This will be my last subscription with them.
Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world 1 year ago
The app I use to write notes needs access to everyone in my Contacts. For “reasons”.
jws_shadotak@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Stop using that app and find a different one.
basxto@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
Simple Notes (Pro)
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
there are so many open source note apps that actually respect you
Maco1969@lemmy.world 1 year ago
At least you’ve got a calculator app, ipads have never had one. Kind of ironic for a device that has more processing power than 1970’s supercomputers.
VikingHippie@lemmy.wtf 1 year ago
more processing power than 1970’s supercomputers.
Doesn’t every computer and computer-like device for the last couple decades or more? Or is that the joke?
Honytawk@lemmy.zip 1 year ago
The joke is that ipads don’t have a calculator despite having plenty of computing power
ebc@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
Even SD cards and USB chargers have powerful microcontrollers in them nowadays
Sprokes@jlai.lu 1 year ago
Isn’t it better though? You can install it if you want.
Maco1969@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It’s just odd, anything ever made with a user interface since the 80’s has had a calculator app. Apple just remove features and charge more for something that is inherently similar to everything else they’ve ever done.
spongebue@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I’m all for choice or whatever, but a simple system-provided calculator should be benign and lightweight enough to be there and coexist with any competing calculator app without much drawback. Like a clock or web browser.
Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Isn’t app store full of calculator apps?
AA5B@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Mostly with ads. It’s easy to argue that a calculator is more fundamental to a functional tablet than a web browser is, and Apple includes one. By all means, there ought to be a market for calculator apps, but it’s pretty fundamental to cover the basics. Also, Apple already has a calculator on iPhone and iPad runs pretty much the same software, so where is it?
Mosfar@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
You can use the search bar for quick calculations. That doesn’t escuses Apple from adding an calculator app on iPad! Most calculator apps have ads or are paid
Ziglin@lemmy.world 1 year ago
And I thought our admins removed it…
ohlaph@lemmy.world 1 year ago
This is one of the many reasons I built my own weather application for Android. Too much crap out there.
Daefsdeda@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Are you willing too share? Been looking for a good weather app.
kzhe@lemmy.zip 1 year ago
On F Droid lots of beautiful ones. Breezy, Prognoza, Rain, and more.
ohlaph@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It can be found on Google Play, Weather Warbler. I haven’t put it on F-Droid yet. Still adding features, so it’s not complete yet, but getting there.
answersplease77@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It also wants to access your location and nearby devices and wifi
psud@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Weather wants your location so you can get weather for where you are
aluminium@lemmy.world 1 year ago
iPads : I’m once again asking you to download a calculator app from the app store
BoastfulDaedra@lemmynsfw.com 1 year ago
Well yeah. So it can look at its work on the paper.
You weren’t expecting your calculator app to do all that math in its head, were you?
capital@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Is this an Android meme I’m too iOS to understand?
Gestrid@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
Sort of. I don’t remember the specifics, but it used to be that some apps completely unrelated to phone calls had to request access to make phone calls because of some stuff they needed that Google only allowed them access to if they had the phone call permission.
I believe Google has since changed it so most of that stuff is now a separate permission not related to phone calls, so you don’t see it as often now. It can still happen with older apps, though.
LucidNightmare@lemm.ee 1 year ago
How quickly the fan boys come to downvote you for being correct. 🤣
AVincentInSpace@pawb.social 1 year ago
“Android bad” --iOS users upon seeing a satirical meme
capital@lemmy.world 1 year ago
The vast majority of the Android/iOS flamewar is pro Android on fedi (mostly Mastodon for me). I usually don’t bother but I thought my comment was at least sort of funny? oh well.
fne8w2ah@lemmy.world 1 year ago
F-Droid ftw!
Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Oh don’t worry, there will be a reason.
Hikermick@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Not sure how Bernie is relevant here
funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
the meme is him saying “I am once again asking” (for donations)
7Sea_Sailor@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
Are you too young to know the Bernie Sanders meme, or too old to know the Bernie Sanders meme?
Hikermick@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Too old to care
ohlaph@lemmy.world 1 year ago
You will.
RootBeerGuy@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
Its a meme?
NateNate60@lemmy.world 1 year ago
What camera app are you lit using? I’m just using the default Google one and it works as expected with no bullshit.
ElBarto@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
That’s because it automatically allows camera permission obviously!
Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Oh man, I hope the sarcasm is just implied.
LinkOpensChest_wav@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
Simple Camera
ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
Calculator camera permissions are so you can take a picture of a mathvproblem and it will do it for you.
Phone call management is to allow phone calls to be recognized by the apk so it will do things like stopping video and muting its sound so the phone call can have priority over other things.
rsuri@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I’ve done this on a simple timer app I developed.
Why? Because I want the timer to stop automatically during a phone call. Unfortunately, there’s no way to alter the permission request to tell the user (at least in Android) why you want the permission. They really need to make the permissions more granular and provide some way for devs to communicate what the permission is for.
rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world 1 year ago
This is why, on the occasion of necessary permissions not being set, a lot of apps nowadays have a popup which tells the user something like “you need to grant permission for X because it actually lets this app do legitimate thing Y” like you just told us, with a button to click over to do the permissions grab and trigger the OS popup.
brbposting@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Smooth workarounds are out there!
Pre-permissions pop up:
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Pre-permissions checklist:
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