Re: Android keyboard: your choice.

Andrew, 2024-06-19 20:45:

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HeliBoard:
 1. android.permission.READ_CONTACTS
 2. android.permission.READ_USER_DICTIONARY
 3. android.permission.RECEIVE_BOOT_COMPLETED
 4. android.permission.VIBRATE
 5. android.permission.WRITE_USER_DICTIONARY
 6. helium314.keyboard.DYNAMIC_RECEIVER_NOT_EXPORTED_PERMISSION
 
OpenBoard:
 1. android.permission.POST_NOTIFICATIONS
 2. android.permission.READ_USER_DICTIONARY
 3. android.permission.RECEIVE_BOOT_COMPLETED
 4. android.permission.VIBRATE
 5. android.permission.WRITE_USER_DICTIONARY
 
Does anyone have a logical explanation of why this difference?

Heliboard supports a registered broadcast runtime reciever for Adroid 13
and above - see here:

<https://developer.android.google.cn/about/versions/13/features?hl=en#runtime-receivers>

Quote:

"To help make runtime receivers safer, Android 13 introduces the ability
for your app to specify whether a registered broadcast receiver should
be exported and visible to other apps on the device. On previous
versions of Android, any app on the device could send an unprotected
broadcast to a dynamically-registered receiver unless that receiver was
guarded by a signature permission."

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