The permissions allow an application to modify configuration settings of Android’s Launcher, including that of icons, wrote researchers Hui Xue,A Yulong ZhangA andA Tao Wei on a company blog.

The permissions allow an application to modify configuration settings of Android’s Launcher, including that of icons, wrote researchers Hui Xue,A Yulong ZhangA andA Tao Wei on a company blog.

Those permissions are intended to allow an app to modify configuration settings for the Android launcher and icons. Researchers from FireEye say that those two permissions have been classified as ...

In Android 13, Google has cooked up a new "NEARBY_WIFI_DEVICES" permission, which will presumably give apps a list of nearby devices without leaking your location or needing the location permission.

And so, on the latest Android 4.4.2 system, if an app requests normal permissions, even if it’s also requesting dangerous permissions, Android doesn’t display the normal functions to the user. And ...

Android Q probably won’t be released in stable form until August, ... That new statusbar icon for each permission being used can be tapped to then reveal which apps are using it.

In each case, after Awesome Icons has been granted permission to make changes, you can choose an image from your phone or camera to replace the default icon. Choose a picture.

How to create custom Android icons and icon packs for fun. These days, ... but then you would still need permission from the developer as you’d be using their code and their icon.

We were able to uncover work on a new location indicator that could arrive in later Android 12 builds alongside the camera/mic icons. ... icon when Google Maps requested the location permission.