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Android 6 Essentials

By : Yossi Elkrief
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Android 6 Essentials

By: Yossi Elkrief

Overview of this book

Android 6 is the latest and greatest version of the Android operating system, and comes packed with cutting edge new features for you to harness for the benefit of building better applications. This step-by-step guide will take you through the basics of the Android Marshmallow permissions model and beyond into other crucial areas such as the Audio,Video,Camera API and Android’s at work features. Learn how to create, deploy, and manage Android applications with Marshmallow’s API and the latest functionalities. The combination of instructions and real-world examples will make your application deployment and testing a breeze.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Android 6 Essentials
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Managing runtime permissions


Android Marshmallow introduced the runtime permissions model, and Android for Work had to deal with managing policies for devices. You as device owner can now set a policy for all runtime requests of all applications using setPermissionPolicy().

You can choose to prompt users to grant permissions or automatically grant or deny the permissions silently. The automatic policy means that the user cannot modify the app's permissions screen in Settings.