The title of this post is misleading. App ops works exactly like that: it does not disable the permissions themselves but turns those API's into no-ops or retur

The title of this post is misleading. App ops works exactly like that: it does not disable the permissions themselves but turns those API's into no-ops or returns dummy data from them. Aside from implementation bugs (like [1] which has killed my app completely) it should theoretically have no breaking effects on apps. [1] https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=58043 https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=58043