Android Content Providers - Is it possible to restrict the provider to a set of applications not written by me?
When it comes to securing a content provider, I was wondering if there was a step between normal permission level security and signature level security. I have an application using a provider that I would like to expose to a particular set of other applications. However, those select other apps will not be written by me, so using a signature level permission won't suffice since the signatures would be different. Also, if I use a normal permission for the provider, and if the consuming application does not have that permission and throws a SecurityException, the logged exception says the name