docs: Removed note that GET_ACCOUNTS was deprecated

We've decided not to deprecate GET_ACCOUNTS yet, but per emails,
we don't want to announce that it now *isn't* deprecated (because we
don't want to encourage people to use this permission); instead,
we're just going to not mention it at all.

Also cleaned up the following section on file permissions while I had
it open.

See first comment for doc stage location.

bug: 28727522
Change-Id: I27d21d186bdbf9ce905f3fb6a29027343a6daaf5
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Andrew Solovay
2016-05-16 12:22:37 -07:00
parent b7f5631156
commit cc80393d94

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@@ -19,9 +19,6 @@ page.image=images/cards/card-n-changes_2x.png
</ol>
</li>
<li><a href="#perm">Permissions Changes</a>
<ol>
<li><a href="#permfilesys">File System Permission Changes</a></li>
</ol>
</li>
<li><a href="#accessibility">Accessibility Improvements</a>
<ol>
@@ -188,29 +185,16 @@ page.image=images/cards/card-n-changes_2x.png
<h2 id="perm">Permissions Changes</h2>
<p>
Android N includes changes to permissions that may affect your app,
including user accounts permissions and a new permission for writing to
external storage. Here is a summary of the permissions that have changed in
the preview:
Android N includes changes to permissions that may affect your app.
</p>
<ul>
<li>{@code GET_ACCOUNTS} (Deprecated)
<p>
The GET_ACCOUNTS permission is now deprecated. The system ignores this
permission for apps that target Android N.
</p>
</li>
</ul>
<h3 id="permfilesys">File system permission changes</h3>
<p>
In order to improve the security of private files, the private directory of
apps targeting Android N or higher has restricted access (0700). This prevents
leakage of metadata of private files, such as their size or existence. This
has multiple side effects:
apps targeting Android N or higher has restricted access (<code>0700</code>).
This change prevents leakage of metadata of private files, such as their size
or existence. This change has multiple side effects:
</p>
<ul>
@@ -246,14 +230,17 @@ page.image=images/cards/card-n-changes_2x.png
Legacy applications that set the download location to a public location by
using
{@link
android.app.DownloadManager.Request#setDestinationInExternalFilesDir} or
android.app.DownloadManager.Request#setDestinationInExternalFilesDir
DownloadManager.Request.setDestinationInExternalFilesDir()} or
{@link
android.app.DownloadManager.Request#setDestinationInExternalPublicDir}
android.app.DownloadManager.Request#setDestinationInExternalPublicDir
DownloadManager.Request.setDestinationInExternalPublicDir()}
can still access the path in
{@link android.app.DownloadManager#COLUMN_LOCAL_FILENAME}, however, this
method is strongly discouraged. The preferred way of accessing a file
exposed by the {@link android.app.DownloadManager} is using
{@link android.content.ContentResolver#openFileDescriptor}.
{@link android.content.ContentResolver#openFileDescriptor
ContentResolver.openFileDescriptor()}.
</li>
</ul>