There are three ways in which Google delivers new APIs to Android developers:
New SDKs, tied to new versions of Android
Add-on JARs or library projects, such as the Android Suppor package
Google Play Services
In the latter case, while we still need to add an Android library project to our app, some (if not most) of the business logic is in the Play Services app, with the library simply providing a local API wrapper around the IPC to that other app.
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Do you carefully read the permissions before downloading a new Android app? Or like many of us, are you too busy to read them all?
If you're the kind of person who has a ton of apps hastily downloaded, and you're concerned some of them might be eating into your data plan or spamming your phone, Clueful is a new app which could help.
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