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Non-Default SMS Apps In KitKat Can Still Write To The SMS Database Using A Switch In App Ops (No Root Required)

adnane 1 News February 12, 2014

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First, we heard
 that KitKat would bring some changes to the API, breaking many of the 
SMS apps we've come to rely on. On the day KitKat was released, we were 
given a more <a href="http://www.androidpolice.com/2013/10/31/kitkat-sms-situation-revisited-new-sms-rules-ensure-there-is-one-app-in-charge-of-your-messaging-history-but-everything-else-is-ok/" title="">full explanation</a>,
 shining some light on the technical details and exactly what types of 
apps would be affected. But did anybody really think this was the end of
 the story? It turns out that a hidden permission exists which can still
 grant non-default apps the right to modify the SMS database just like 
they used to - no rooting required.</div>
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The discovery was made by XDA Senior Member <a class="external" href="https://plus.google.com/+StefanoPicciolo/posts" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Stefano Picciolo</a> (a.k.a. <a class="external" href="http://forum.xda-developers.com/member.php?u=3213673" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">stepic</a>)
 while digging through the Android 4.4 source code. This new permission 
isn't a part of the conventional system we've used since the burgeoning 
days of Android, but it's stowed away in the still semi-hidden App Ops 
interface. Named OP_WRITE_SMS, this permission is disabled by default 
and must be granted by the user manually. Of course, this means 
developers will have to explain to users how to enable the functionality
 and why it's needed. Yup, that's a good thing.</div>
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With this capability, users don't have to give up on having multiple 
fully-functioning SMS apps and cloud-synced messages, they just have to 
decide which ones are allowed to modify the database. Unfortunately, 
most backup and restore apps probably won't gain very much, since 
enabling OP_WRITE_SMS is more of a hassle than switching the default SMS
 app for a minute while they do their work, but there might be some 
exceptions.</div>
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As Picciolo points out, only one classic function remains unaccounted
 for. Within KitKat, there is still no way to completely prevent a 
message from being seen by other apps since the default SMS app is 
guaranteed to receive a notification. The ability to abort a new message
 broadcast is frequently used by anti-theft software to allow the owner 
access to coordinates and other data on a phone without tipping off a 
thief that the device is being tracked. Obviously, this could be abused 
by a malicious app, but making the user responsible for making the 
decision to enable such a permission seems like a reasonable 
countermeasure.</div>
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If you're a user looking to return your texting apps to their regular
 working order, there are a couple of ways to get to App Ops. The 
easiest method is to simply install one of the many apps in the Play 
Store that simply open the screen. Once you're in, swipe over to the <em>Messaging</em> tab, find the app, and enable <em>Write SMS/MMS</em>.
 If an app isn't an option for any reason, hooking up to a computer and 
running this rather lengthy adb command will work in a pinch.</div>
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<em>adb
 shell am start -n com.android.settings/com.android.settings.Settings -e
 :android:show_fragment com.android.settings.applications.AppOpsSummary 
--activity-clear-task --activity-exclude-from-recents</em><br />

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Since good developers should probably make things as easy as possible
 for their users, I'm including a handy snippet of code to put in your 
apps that will open App Ops for the user. Ideally, there should also be 
an explanation of why users would want to do this and instructions on 
what exactly to do once they are looking at the App Ops screen. This 
snippet has been tested on Android 4.3 through the recently released 
4.4.1, but there are no promises about future versions.</div>
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<strong>Update:</strong> Sorry, this code stopped working with Android 4.4.2.</div>
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intent.<span class="me1">putExtra</span><span class="br0">(</span><span class="st0">":android:show_fragment"</span>, <span class="st0">"com.android.settings.applications.AppOpsSummary"</span><span class="br0">)</span><span class="sy0">;</span>
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Well, there you have it. We've got most of the original functionality
 back for SMS apps, it just requires the user to make an actual security
 decision, which seems like a good thing. This is evidence that App Ops 
can be a really important feature for advanced users, as it allows us to
 make more decisions about what apps should be allowed to do. Now, if 
App Ops would just become more streamlined and user-facing in future 
updates, we'll be set.</div>
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<em>Source: </em><a class="external" href="http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2551072" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><em>XDA</em></a></div>
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Non-Default SMS Apps In KitKat Can Still Write To The SMS Database Using A Switch In App Ops (No Root Required)

First, we heard that KitKat would bring some changes to the API, breaking many of the SMS apps we've come to rely on. On the day K...

Google Play Music All Access Arrives In Germany

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According to postings from our German friends, the All Access 
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January 15th. After that, it goes up to €9.99 per month. <br />

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Microsoft Releases TouchDevelop For Android, Makes Browser-Based Apps Easy To Develop On A Phone

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The odds are against most people in the 
Android world having heard of TouchDevelop by Microsoft. From the start,
 it was designed to be used with a small touchscreen interface by 
hobbyists and intended to ease people into programming. Things haven't 
changed too much in that department, but the project has grown from its 
humble beginnings on Windows Phone to supporting iOS, Windows, Mac, and 
now Android.</div>
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The app actually doesn't do very much, it only handles push 
notifications and acts as a shortcut to the website. All of the real 
action happens in Chrome for Android; both the Integrated Development 
Environment (IDE) and the scripts it creates are built on HTML5. While 
the app mostly follows the basic conventions for an Android app, the web
 site makes extensive (to the point of being painful) use of the Windows
 Phone design principles and iconography.</div>
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You can pretty freely browse and run most user submissions without 
signing in, but saving to the leaderboards or building your own scripts 
requires an account. Fortunately, TouchDevelop can be used with your 
option of a Google+, Yahoo, Facebook, or Microsoft (formerly Live) 
account. Regardless of how you proceed, you'll be presented with a long 
page of categories for different types of apps and games. If you just 
want to mess around, browse through the catalog and tap 'Run' if 
anything catches your interest.</div>
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Most of the tutorials are completely guided and include a lot of 
single-step achievements, but they do a good job of teaching the 
scripting language and acclimating users to the interface. You'll be 
building games and applications right from the start, and it all happens
 pretty quickly. Since modern web browsers now allow access to most of 
the sensors, the apps can achieve most of the same things native apps 
can.</div>
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Once you've created an app, it can be shared with your friends or 
made public. If others are interested, they can make changes to your 
code and you'll be notified about what they've done. If you decide your 
creation could be a hit, it can even be exported as an app for Windows 
8, Windows RT, or Windows Phone (7.5 and 8) devices. Sorry, there's no 
way to turn these into native Android apps.</div>
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TouchDevelop isn't about to turn anybody into a programmer with mad 
skillz, but it's easier to learn and certainly much closer to the real 
thing than most other introductory languages. The interface is very 
accessible and keeps the keyboard from appearing any more than 
absolutely necessary, which finally makes development on a phone a bit 
more palatable. If you're looking for a way to learn some basic 
principles of programming or just want to build some simple apps, 
TouchDevelop is free and might be worth checking out.</div>
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<em>Source: </em><a class="external" href="https://www.touchdevelop.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><em>TouchDevelop</em></a></div>
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Google Voice Search Now Speaks French, German, And Japanese

adnane 1 Google, News February 12, 2014

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Just by tapping the microphone icon in the 
search bar, English speakers can ask Google any number of questions and 
have their phone respond in their native language. Thus far, others 
haven't been so lucky. But now Google is expanding that functionality to
 more languages. Starting today, French, German, and Japanese speakers 
shall also be able to ask their Android devices questions and hear 
answers spoken in the same tongue</div>
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The changes should take place server-side, so you don't have to wait 
for a update (as long as you already have the latest version, that is). 
Just fire up the Google Search app on your Android phone and ask away. 
As for other languages, stay tuned. Google is working to add support for
 more in the days ahead.</div>
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<em>Source: <a class="external" href="http://insidesearch.blogspot.com/2013/12/voice-search-gets-international-upgrade_5.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+InsideSearch+%28Inside+Search%29" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Google</a></em></div>
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Download Android 4.4.1 OTA (KOT49E) For The Nexus 4

adnane 1 android, News, Smartphones February 12, 2014

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Download signed-occam-KOT49E-from-KRT16S:
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<li><a class="external" href="http://android.clients.google.com/packages/data/ota/google_mako/0896df95085b6ad55bbe4694a612da0c6ed2fa1c.signed-occam-KOT49E-from-KRT16S.0896df95.zip" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Google's server</a>
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<li><a class="external" href="http://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=23252070760973254" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Android Police mirror</a></li>
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MD5 sum: fc144a5ef26821e0c5fd8d1bfe148a42</div>
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Size: 51.9MB</div>
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Install</h2>
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<strong>Note</strong>: This method, just like the native OTA update procedure, does <em>not </em>wipe your data.
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You'll use the <em>adb sideload</em> command after making sure your device is properly detected by ADB. You can check out our full sideload guide here
 – the process is identical except for the file name. If you have a 
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Rooting</h2>
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The update will likely kill root on previously rooted devices, but it's easy to get back:
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<li>Flash TWRP from <a class="external" href="http://teamw.in/project/twrp2" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">here</a> (<em>fastboot flash recovery FILENAME.img</em>).
</li>
<li>Reboot into recovery (<em>adb reboot recovery </em>or hold Power+VolDn, then select <em>Recovery</em>).
</li>
<li>Flash the latest version of <a class="external" href="http://download.chainfire.eu/supersu" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">SuperSU</a>.
</li>
<li>You should be rooted.</li>
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<em>Thanks, <a class="external" href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/+MarcoPedrazzoli" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Marco</a>.</em></div>
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While we're not entirely sure what changes 
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currently rolling out to (aside from an improved camera on the Nexus 5),
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Just head to <a class="external" href="https://android.googlesource.com/platform/build/+/kitkat-mr1-release" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">the kitkat-mr1-release branch</a> and you'll see the build number KOT49E. <strong>Update</strong>: The relevant tag for the update is <em>android-4.4.1_r1</em>.<br />

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 will address some of the issues we've been pointing out in <a href="http://www.androidpolice.com/topics/features-2/bug-watch-features-2/">our ongoing Bug Watch series</a>.<br />

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Play Movies Update Lets Users Save HD Videos In A Lower Resolution, Helps Recover Storage Space And Speed Up Downloads

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If your phone has a large 5-inch screen, 
you own an Android tablet, or your HDTV has a Chromecast plugged into 
it, it would make sense to splurge on the HD version of the next movie 
you buy from Google Play. It's like getting two movies for the price of 
one, really, as you can still stream the video in SD if Internet speeds 
aren't quite up to snuff. But until now, users have only been able to 
download the larger version of any HD content they wanted to pin to a 
device. Now you're given a choice.
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What's new:<br />

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<li>Get your content offline faster - now HD movies and shows may be downloaded in HD or SD.</li>
<li>Fixed Error 31 issue affecting some devices during playback.</li>
<li>Improved video streaming performance for select KitKat devices.</li>
<li>Additional bugfixes.</li>
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While in most cases you're probably going to want to pin the more 
attractive version of the video, having a say in the matter is nice once
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Aside from that, this isn't a major update. If you only 
purchase SD content - and given the price difference, I wouldn't blame 
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