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TL;DR: I'm looking for an android app that fakes the gps location to certain apps only and not all of them.
My android phone is x86 based and is on Jelly Bean 4.1.2.
This means that PDroid can't be flashed to my rom. LBE Privacy Guard also doesn't work since it requires certain superuser ARM binaries or something that aren't available on my phone. It doesn't work.
The reason I need one of those apps is to deny location access to every app that doesn't legitimately deserve it. For example I am really uncomfortable with apps like facebook or angry birds having access to my location when they have absolutely no business doing so. This is very unsafe and unnecessary. It also kills the battery more quickly. I find the gps is in use about every other time I pick up my phone.
The only apps that should have permissions for this are navigation and weather. I'd rather not have to resort to keeping the gps off and turning it on only when I need it because that's a pain and the malicious apps can access it once I turn it back on anyway.
Apps like permissions denied will just deny the gps permissions and not fake it for the specified apps like LBE does. Unfortunately, facebook has security that makes it crash when this happens. So I got an idea. Maybe I could somehow find an app that fakes my location only to certain apps while allowing apps like weather and navigation to know my real location.
I've found apps that fake my location for ALL apps but I need something that fakes it for certain apps. Does anybody know of anything?
My android phone is x86 based and is on Jelly Bean 4.1.2.
This means that PDroid can't be flashed to my rom. LBE Privacy Guard also doesn't work since it requires certain superuser ARM binaries or something that aren't available on my phone. It doesn't work.
The reason I need one of those apps is to deny location access to every app that doesn't legitimately deserve it. For example I am really uncomfortable with apps like facebook or angry birds having access to my location when they have absolutely no business doing so. This is very unsafe and unnecessary. It also kills the battery more quickly. I find the gps is in use about every other time I pick up my phone.
The only apps that should have permissions for this are navigation and weather. I'd rather not have to resort to keeping the gps off and turning it on only when I need it because that's a pain and the malicious apps can access it once I turn it back on anyway.
Apps like permissions denied will just deny the gps permissions and not fake it for the specified apps like LBE does. Unfortunately, facebook has security that makes it crash when this happens. So I got an idea. Maybe I could somehow find an app that fakes my location only to certain apps while allowing apps like weather and navigation to know my real location.
I've found apps that fake my location for ALL apps but I need something that fakes it for certain apps. Does anybody know of anything?