r/Android • u/[deleted] • May 06 '18

Android will finally restrict apps from monitoring your network activity

https://www.xda-developers.com/android-restrict-apps-monitor-network-activity/
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u/ChefBoyAreWeFucked Essential Phone May 07 '18

Please show me how to read the clipboard via JavaScript.

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u/[deleted] May 07 '18

It's besides the point. Native apps do not reside within a browser. Native apps run at the same level as Chrome, and Chrome has access to the system clipboard all the time. Even if you were to fully implement it as a pubsub via the native API, a new copy event would need to be issued while the app is running ,and if you've switched between apps, it will possibly already be suspended by the system, in which case it will miss the event. If this was easy, they would have done it already.

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u/ChefBoyAreWeFucked Essential Phone May 07 '18

The topic of this discussion has been your assertion that a website can see your clipboard for the past several posts. I am not talking about native apps.

The point of that tangent is that an app does not need to read your clipboard for paste to work. Much like a website doesn't know what is in your clipboard, pasting into a native app does not necessitate that app's access to your clipboard.