Information Technology Reference
In-Depth Information
Windows app requesting user permissions
This is similar to the permission model in Android. This gives the user the freedom to
learn about all the capabilities that an application has before installing the application. The
list of all capabilities is included in the application manifest file
WMAppManifest.xml
,
which can be accessed through visual studio or other methods defined at
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App sandboxing
Apps in Windows Phone run in a sandboxed environment. This means every application
on Windows Phone 7 runs in its own chamber. Applications are isolated from each other
and cannot access the data of other applications. If any app needs to save information to
the device, it can do so using the isolated storage, which is restricted from access by other
applications. Also, the third-party applications installed on Windows Phone cannot run in
the background, that is, when the user switches to a different application, the previously
used application is shut down (although the application state is preserved). This ensures
that the application cannot perform activities such as communicating over the Internet
when the user is not using the application. These restrictions also make the Windows
Phone less susceptible to malware.
