Re: Permissions UI & Necessary API

On April 25, 2014 at 9:29:02 AM, Doug Reeder (reeder_29@yahoo.com) wrote:
> If you haven't read it, Brenden Mulligan's article on "The Right Way To Ask Users For iOS  
> Permissions" lays out what I would consider to be current best practice (for all systems,  
> not just iOS): http://techcrunch.com/2014/04/04/the-right-way-to-ask-users-for-ios-permissions/  
>  
> Currently, there is a huge divide between app permission UI and system permission UI.  
> Asking the user twice is suboptimal. I think the best UI would be a system dialog, with  
> a box containing text from the app explaining what application task the permission is  
> needed to accomplish. That would require an API with a field to pass a plain text string.  

I agree with what Anssi said. It's too easy for people to lie given a text string. I prefer the approach that is taken in the article which appears to basically be the Web's security model. As Anssi also said, and as shown in the article, one can just create temporary prompts to help mitigate the user denying access to privileges they would otherwise require - and that those prompts are displayed at the appropriate time when the user needs to perform an action. 

Having said that, it's pretty clever what they've done in application. I really like how they hook in contacts by setting up an expectation.

Received on Friday, 25 April 2014 18:16:19 UTC