As Google continues to update its privacy and security policies,Now I am making an important change in Android, which will significantly limit the ability to Android apps to see them all other applications that you have installed on your device.
In a recent announcement for developers, Google has introduced an update to its policies that will restrict “wide application visibility ”in Android 11 or later. Wide application visibility is a feature that allows apps to query your device and potentially see what other apps you’ve installed. Google says it considers data about other applications installed on a device to be sensitive information and makes this change to increase user privacy.
Specifically, Google says that any application that “can work with a larger version declaration of visibility of the package concerned“It’s not allowed to use QUERY_ALL_PACKAGES, which returns a list of every app on your Android device, while the wide visibility of the application is “limited to specific use cases where awareness and / or interoperability with any and all applications on the device is required for the application to work”.
The types of applications that will be allowed to have a wide view of applications include applications such as file managers, browsers, antivirus applications, and others that simply can’t work without deeper access to other applications on your device. means that it will be especially important to make sure that these types of applications come from safe and reliable places.
Moreover, in the future, Google says that developers will have to properly justify the use of extended app visibility calls or remove the app’s permission to see a device’s manifest manifest. Starting April 1, Google is offering developers a 30-day grace period to edit or update their apps in response to the new policy. However, developers who do not comply by May 5 risk having their apps removed or removed from the Google Play Store.
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In the last year or so, Google has slowly reduced the permissions of Android apps, and this recent move to severely restrict the wide visibility of the app is another small but important step in increasing the security of our apps and devices. And with Google set to force developers to build apps for Android 11 and later starting in November, we should see a noticeable improvement in Android security in the future.