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by StavrosK 4785 days ago
Hmm, could you point me to any? A search didn't turn anything up, but I haven't done any Android development, so I'm far from an expert.
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justinrickity 4785 days ago
There's LBE Privacy Guard which is available in the Play store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.lbe.securi...

It's broken at the moment but used to provide the feature you requested

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StavrosK 4785 days ago
Yeah, I saw that, but it has a lot of 1-star reviews. Something about all these apps doesn't inspire confidence, I don't know why...
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randallu 4785 days ago
Here's one: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.privacy.pd...
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StavrosK 4785 days ago
Oh huh, that actually looks very nice! Thank you!

EDIT: Oh, Gingerbread-only :/

EDIT 2: It seems that the only "good/working" app is PDroid (and OpenPDroid for ICS). Unfortunately, it's only available for custom ROMs, and it's a lot of work to add it to stock ROMs. It looks like that this will either need a lot of hard work to do (and be hard to install), or Android will need to do it natively. Too bad neither option is very feasible...

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