Thursday, April 21, 2011

Re: [BLUG] Simple wish list for Android

On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 10:23 AM, Williams, Jeffery Allen
<jefjewil@indiana.edu> wrote:
> There are a couple of applications that will setup a proxy server ASProxy in
> the market and Transparent Proxy in other places.  Unfortunately they
> require root access on the phone.  I'm not sure everyone is up to this.  I
> also vaguely remember this being brought up as part of a future version of
> Android.
>
>
>
> Jeffery Williams
>
> Software Engineer
>
> ISAT Hall

Yeah, that's been my experience.

The free ones I've used either don't seem to work on the devices I
tried them on, which makes me not too enthusiastic about them, or
require root. And I can't expect all my users to have root, or to want
to root their phones.

I also don't want to point them to pay apps for simple functionality I
used to think of as mostly universal.

I mean, I can set up all kinds of other crappy little embedded systems
to work right on our network, any PC you can throw at me, and most
handheld devices (including iOS)...but not my Android phone or tablet.

That just kind of hurts.

Simón

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