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?
Best Answer
Android R Update:
From Android R, this method always returns false. Google says that this is done "to protect goat privacy":
Previous answer:
From their source, the method used to return
false
until it was changed in API 21.It looks like the method has no real use for us as developers. Someone has previously stated that it might be an Easter egg.
In API 21 the implementation was changed to check if there is an installed app with the package
com.coffeestainstudios.goatsimulator
Here is the source and the change.