Apps SOS!! A question to the pro developers

[Eng Nasir A]

Greetings All,

I have a question for the application developers. If I have developed an application that needs an access to the phone's media, will I be able to acess the person's media file anytime and look into his pictures?!

This might be a weird question but beleive me I'm in trouble. Someone is holding printscreens from my chat on what'sApp that would totally ruin my career.

Your prompt reply is highly appreciated

 

[TheCodeMonkey]

Basically, yes. I don't think it even requires the use of a permission, unless you kept the images in a different folder, then you would need the READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE permission to get that. But then it could be anywhere in storage, so you'd have to search for the image extensions to find them.

As for anytime, this could be an open idea. The application would have to have a service running to have and uses a listener code to do a periodic check, which could be used to look into your files.

In the event that the images are found and they are wanting to be deleted, you would need the WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE permission to overwrite the images.

 

[out of ideas]

you're basically asking if its possible to go into someones picture without them knowing and deleting stuff(and theoretically by extension, copying or reusing it later).

This is at best a grey area, and more likely something everyone on android is kind of against.

i think this should kind of be deleted, hopefully noone helps on this.

maybe you could try talking to this person and getting them to delete it? or better yet, realize you shouldnt write things down that could backfire on you.

 

[scary alien]

^^^ Agreed.

This seems like you want to develop an app that you'll somehow try to get installed on another person's device solely to remove the WhatApp screenshots...

I'm locking this thread. PM me if you need to discuss further.