Proper use cases for Android UserManager.isUserAGoat()?
I was looking at the new APIs introduced in Android 4.2. While looking at the
UserManager class I came across the following method:public boolean isUserAGoat()Used to determine whether the user making this call is subject to teleportations.Returns whether the user making this call is a goat.
How and when should this be used?
Answer:
From their source, the method used to return
false until it was changed in API 21./**
* Used to determine whether the user making this call is subject to
* teleportations.
* @return whether the user making this call is a goat
*/
public boolean isUserAGoat() {
return false;
}
It looks like the method has no real use for us as developers. Someone has previously stated that it might be an Easter egg.
Edit:
In API 21 the implementation was changed to check if there is an installed app with the package
com.coffeestainstudios.goatsimulator/**
* Used to determine whether the user making this call is subject to
* teleportations.
*
* <p>As of {@link android.os.Build.VERSION_CODES#LOLLIPOP}, this method can
* now automatically identify goats using advanced goat recognition technology.</p>
*
* @return Returns true if the user making this call is a goat.
*/
public boolean isUserAGoat() {
return mContext.getPackageManager()
.isPackageAvailable("com.coffeestainstudios.goatsimulator");
}
Here is the source link
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13375357/proper-use-cases-for-android-usermanager-isuseragoat
