alt Hacker NewsForcing people to keep up with SDK updates is a bad thing in itself. Let people target the earliest possible feature set and make the app run on as many phones as possible rather than showing scary messages to people due to targeting an older API.
Forcing people to keep up with SDK updates is a bad thing in itself. Let people target the earliest possible feature set and make the app run on as many phones as possible rather than showing scary messages to people due to targeting an older API.
I think the problem is that older SDK versions allowed you to do things like scan local WiFi names to get location data, without requiring the location permission.
So bad actors would just target lower SDK versions and ignore the privacy improvements