(Image Source: Reproduction / Android and Me) When Android 4.3 was officially released by Google, some users were very excited about the discovery of a hidden feature simply dubbed App Ops. The “secret” tool giving users the freedom to manually set all the permissions required by each of the applications installed on your smartphone or equipped with the tablet operating system.
Thus, if you do not trust right newly installed program, you might prohibit you from accessing your calendar or have control over your WiFi connection, for example. This feature was especially appreciated by people who have a greater concern about privacy of your data and security of their digital information;. Anyway, you never know when a program is misusing your files or contacts
However, claiming that the App Ops was just an experimental feature and that its continued use could lead to problems for the user, Google decided to completely bar access to the function in the latest version of Android, the 4.4 KitKat. Many complained, others protested and even the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) released an open letter asking for Google to reflect on that decision. According to the NGO, the user of a smartphone should have the right to care for its own privacy, choosing an application or will not crawl.
Recovering what is your
But there is no reason to despair: there are already (and simpler) alternative ways to access so notorious feature in Android 4.3 and 4.4. Basically, all you need to do is install the Tiger Color App Ops 4.3 / 4.4 KitKat, an application developed by Color Tiger Software and can be purchased legally by own Google Play. Best of all is that your device does not need to be rooteado for the program to function properly!
The truth is that, according to the developer Own Color Tiger, App Ops was not removed from the Android KitKat, it’s still there, being distributed natively, but completely inaccessible by conventional methods. So everything this app does is provide a more user friendly shortcut to functionality.
Going far beyond
If your device is rooteado, you can choose to install the App eXtended Oops, an enhanced version of the native feature also developed by Color Tiger Software. You can purchase this extension the first time you open the application described above. For now, the only advantage of eXtended compared to native App Ops (conventional) is the possibility of seeking applications through a search box.
worth noting, however, that those responsible for the software they want to increase it very soon, adding more and more unique features that you can not find in the App Normal Ops. Among the promised features, we highlight the automatic revocation of permissions, integration with the task manager, notifications and multiple configuration profiles.
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