While we await to see the launch and features the new Android P (Android 9) has to offer, It has been revealed Android P will preventing malicious background apps from accessing your camera and recordings via microphone. This according to Google is to help prevent the increasing number of malicious malware apps and trojans in taking control of your smartphone when the screen is turned off.

Before now, Android hasn’t done much to prevent this, and developers have found ways to covertly record video or take pictures without the user knowing at all. This new rule-set keeps an eye on the UID of applications blocking them from accessing your camera in even when the UID is idle.

Source: https://www.techchairman.com/2018/02/android-p-to-prevent-apps-from.html