2025-03-30 Hacker News Top Articles and Its Summaries
1. Everyone knows all the apps on your phone Total comment counts : 53 Summary The article discusses the changes in Android’s app visibility policy introduced with Android 11 in 2022, which limits apps’ abilities to detect other installed apps on users’ devices without permission. Developers can only access this information if it is essential to their app’s functionality and must declare the accessed apps in their manifest files. The author investigates a variety of Indian apps, specifically focusing on Swiggy and Zepto, to see how they comply with this policy....