Android 4.3: a hidden feature to control the permissions of the apps

Open Source: The feature is called App Ops, and allows to check given to applications for access to the various tools physical and software of the device.

The latest version of Android Jelly Bean, 4.3, brings in its hidden features an interesting novelty for users: the ability to finely monitor permissions left to the applications installed on the device, reports Android Police.

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While it was necessary until now to make a radical choice - allow all permissions, or do not install the application - App Ops is a new menu grouping all the permissions installed third-party software. What application can access the GPS, read your contacts or know your appointments... App Ops provides near real-time achieved access.

Users may also refuse to grant certain permissions, and this much more easily than with solutions already available. A-update of its article, the site reported even it is possible to manage these permissions upon installation of an application.

It seems that the feature will be accessible to all in the future, and it is hidden because it is not quite ready. It must pass through a somewhat circuitous path, by launching an application that can start an "activity", like the third launcher Nova for example.

In the menu "Settings" App Ops appears, and can be launched with a shortcut. However, an alternative exists for those who have already installed Android 4.3: it's the third "Permission Manager" application, which is available on the Google Play.