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From their github page: https://github.com/google/mathfu https://github.com/google/mathfu What is the implication of this? I am not an Android developer; is th
by vowelless 12y ago
From their github page: https://github.com/google/mathfu https://github.com/google/mathfu
What is the implication of this? I am not an Android developer; is this tracking common?
For applications on Google Play that integrate this tool, usage is tracked. This tracking is done automatically using the embedded version string (kMathFuFunVersionString), and helps us continue to optimize it. Aside from consuming a few extra bytes in your application binary, it shouldn't affect your application at all. We use this information to let us know if MathFu is useful and if we should continue to invest in it. Since this is open source, you are free to remove the version string but we would appreciate if you would leave it in.
- blt 12y agoIt means that by compiling their code into your binary, your binary will contain a string that shows which version of the library you used. Anyone will be able to find it by searching your binary file for the raw bytes. Since the code is open-source, you can always remove the string yourself. This isn't scary. It's not phoning home to a web server or anything. If the library was dynamically linked as a .so/DLL instead of header-only, you'd be able to find the same information by looking at the ELF/EXE file header.
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