>Google has sent an email to developers, stating that "unless developers can describe how the app properly uses the Accessibility Services to help users who are disabled, it will need to remove all requests for accessibility services or it will be taken off of the Play Store"
>"All violations are tracked. Serious or repeated violations of any nature will result in the termination of your developer account, and investigation and possible termination of related Google accounts," Google said.
It sounds like Google has realized that some app developers are abusing an Accessibility service for something that doesn't provide Accessibility so you either have to justify it or remove it.
Jaxon Brooks
how does this work user? they use the code to demonstrate the spam was really executed and get paid?
James Davis
The Google Play store is a "curated garden", but there is no wall keep you in there. You can still download apps from anywhere else.
That is what makes it different to the iPhone walled garden.
Idiots everywhere on Sup Forums today, don't even understand the buzzwords they try and use
Jace Campbell
>replying seriously to spam
Fuck off retards.
Ian Clark
Why do they give a fuck, people use this because it's useful and their API is shit
Bentley Powell
Probably because people are using it in nefarious ways.
Julian Morris
>google play store is the only place to get apps on android
>because people are using it in nefarious ways Like providing notifications to smartwatches that aren't Android Wear. So nefarious to compete with Google. The fucking gayniggers.
Jace Robinson
How do you use accessibility APIs in nefarious ways?
Michael Foster
The main reason why they're doing this would be because all password managers use a Accessibility to find fillable text fields. This causes immense amounts of lag.
Now with Oreo there's an API for password managers so the largest reason to continue using Accessibility (for non Accessibility purposes) are gone.
Caleb Reyes
For the 4 phones that have oreo available
Carter Hall
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Levi Powell
This is true, but it doesn't make what I said any less true
Jordan Murphy
it sets the tone for a future walled garden.. that's about it.
i'll still be using tasker and if they take that away I probably won't care much anymore by then.
Thomas Lewis
This, I want to know what the silly devs where abusing here
Eli White
Last pass uses it to punch in logins. Supposedly the new autofill api replaces it, but its shit.
Zachary Hughes
>silly devs >abusing
Shut the fuck up you absolute millennial piece of shit mongoloid.
It's the DEVELOPERS who should be able to choose what an application does and the user that chooses whether or not they want to trust the application.
Google have created a bunch of ridiculous permissions that stop developers from being able to take harness the full power of the phone.
Clever (not silly you fuckwit) developers therefore take advantage of the accessibility api to gain more privileges for their applications (such as reading data from other applications). This is something they should have been able to do in the first place.
It makes me sick to my stomach that people like you are okay with a third party (google) telling people how and how not to write their software because some retarded moron might download an application from a nefarious developer that has hidden "features." It's antithetical to a free market and caters to the lowest common mongoloid. You should feel bad.
I have no idea why world governments continue to allow the play store to ship with android phones. It's clearly anti-competative tying arrangement that's probably already illegal.
Not to mention the fuckery that apple gets away with.
Adrian Watson
>ship Internet exploder with Windows >get fucked by USA and EU
>ship botnet "app store" on every phone (good luck selling a phone that lacks Play) >get invited 300x annually to the Obama White House to socially engineer elections
Christopher Lopez
Anti-monopoly regulations aren't the same as they used to be. Google preinstalls Chrome on every Android phone and Apple literally bans non-Safari browsers on its closed app store.
Jordan Sanders
>Not to mention the fuckery that apple gets away with. don't bring apple into this. they literally did nothing wrong.
Dominic Hall
>It's the DEVELOPERS who should be able to choose what an application does and the user that chooses whether or not they want to trust the application. And they can; just get the APK and install whatever you want. Google is just cleaning their own catalog up, which you may or may not choose to peruse.
Xavier Gonzalez
And they are doing everything they can to make people use only the preinstalled Google Play Store, this is the part that is not okay.
Julian Cox
Yep, google realised that they’ll make more money this way.
Congratulations.
In the future you can look forward to locked bootloaders and no side loading.
I give it until Android Q
Robert Howard
Will this prevent fagbook messenger from making those annoying pophead UI shit which basically works as a malware on your device? If so, then good. I support google in their decision.
Dylan Nelson
Nope that uses a draw over other apps permission that even google apps use.
No dice for you.
Zachary Bell
That's too bad then. It would have been funny to see fagbook messenger being removed from google store. Oi, don't forget to turn off microphone permission for it if you are using it.
Michael Diaz
>using a phone as anything other than a phone
I get that this shit has already been happening on the "desktop", but we sort of asked for this, didn't we? What does it feel like to already live in a cyberpunk dystopia? Kind of boring and anti-climatic, imo.
Thomas Lewis
I get what you're trying to say, but you do realize that your argument is >the proprietors of this hardware/software environment do not have a right to tell me how i can develop for their environment because >its anti-free market to not force a company to allow me to operate in their environment however i choose This is why people use Linux distros, because if you run Microsoft or Apple designed OS, you get to play their ball game.
You own the hardware. You have limited ownership of the software. The device is not entirely yours. If you care about free market principals, the solution is an opensource software environment designed to be rights-neutral a la GPL that runs on mobile technology and can access mobile data and telephony networks. The solution is not trying to convince the government to restrict actual free market practices simply because you've misidentified them as anti-competition.
Jack Thompson
That fucking sucks.
Alexander Sanders
It's not considered a monopoly because Android has a major competitor, the iPhone. Without Apple you better believe Google would be getting serious regulatory screws put to it. The problem now, is Google and Apple are guaranteed working together on fucking us all over.
Gavin Adams
>Without Apple you better believe Google would be getting serious regulatory screws put to it I don't believe that at all, we're in an era of mega mergers. Out politicians fellate huge multinationals like Google.
