Though I understand the reason, I find this ironic given how invasive play store apps can be. My cars official app requires full location access all the time, otherwise it pops up asking for it every time you open it. Meanwhile some FOSS app that can be code reviewed and sideloaded is more difficult to give needed acess.
and FOSS apps that can be fully code reviewed and confirmed safe, unlike anything proprietary, will still cause banking apps to refuse to run on your unrooted device. I had to go back to carrying a physical key around with me. (the foss apps were there first)
Not to defend the shitty app, but it’s probably Google’s fault. Location access is needed to just query WiFi or do a hotspot. Probably features the app needs. They should’ve make that more granular.
They show a map where vehivle last parked compared to you.
They could use it for their proprietary phone as key feature that doesn’t work and is unreliable compared to using UWB.
Gonna add this one since its totally the reason, sell your data. They store the car data, why not get the phones location data so you can get them all the time!
I haven’t deved android since before all of the permission overhauls but I believe aprpximate would suffice for those cases, and I don’t think they are actually needed. Luckily with a little bit of work and someones open source project I was able to get a home assistant integration to use their API and give them 0 of those permission requests.
I’m no android pro Dev, so no absolute confidence in my point. You’re probably right.
And good you managed to bring it into HA without the permissions.
Though I understand the reason, I find this ironic given how invasive play store apps can be. My cars official app requires full location access all the time, otherwise it pops up asking for it every time you open it. Meanwhile some FOSS app that can be code reviewed and sideloaded is more difficult to give needed acess.
and FOSS apps that can be fully code reviewed and confirmed safe, unlike anything proprietary, will still cause banking apps to refuse to run on your unrooted device. I had to go back to carrying a physical key around with me. (the foss apps were there first)
Not to defend the shitty app, but it’s probably Google’s fault. Location access is needed to just query WiFi or do a hotspot. Probably features the app needs. They should’ve make that more granular.
They need it for 2 things I believe.
Sure they sell the data…my point was just that they would probably need the permission even if they didn’t want your actual location.
I haven’t deved android since before all of the permission overhauls but I believe aprpximate would suffice for those cases, and I don’t think they are actually needed. Luckily with a little bit of work and someones open source project I was able to get a home assistant integration to use their API and give them 0 of those permission requests.
I’m no android pro Dev, so no absolute confidence in my point. You’re probably right. And good you managed to bring it into HA without the permissions.