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John
John

Reputation: 1

Unethical to toggle bluetooth?

Is it unethical to programatically toggle BT on/off without user's permission each time? Does Google take down apps that do that? I see that it is made explicitly that user's permission should be given in order to toggle BT on/off in the guide, but how is it enforced?

Thanks

Upvotes: 0

Views: 133

Answers (3)

harryovers
harryovers

Reputation: 3138

you shouldn't be turning it on and off like that, have a look at the different states a bluetooth device goes through to see if that helps you solve the problem.

Upvotes: 0

MCBrandenburg
MCBrandenburg

Reputation: 72

The ethics is a gray area. You did declare you have permission, but you may want to put up a notification/warning of some sort.

From what I read. You have to declare permissions for things you access outside your application.

Upvotes: 2

vrxacs
vrxacs

Reputation: 173

In order to use Bluetooth at all you have to ask permission from the Android OS in your app's Manifest. I would imagine that if Google wanted apps to explicitly get user permissions it would do it automatically at this point.

Upvotes: 1

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