just a small "bump" ... with the hope someone can answer my question.
On 8 Jun., 09:46, LeveloKment <levelokm...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Hello. > > I provide a small tool called PatternControl via the market that give > the users the opportunity to temporary deactivate the Android "lock > pattern" for a definable amount of time. With other words: After > entering the pattern, the pattern becomes deactivated for i.e. 5mins > and re activates it self afterwards. > > Until now (Android < 2.2) this was only possible by changing the > settings directly, because there was no related API provided. > (i.e.with something like > setBoolean(Settings.System.LOCK_PATTERN_ENABLED, enabled)) > It is clear that this in not a good way, but from my knowledge there > was no alternative. > > My hope was, that Froyo would introduce a new API to handle things > like that "legally". > With the new security model of Android 2.2 writing to this kind of > settings is now disallowed and the PolicyManager class seems just to > offer password complexity options. > > So here is my question: > Is there still any way to temporary deactivate the "lock pattern" as > long as Android does not support such a delay functions natively? > > Thanks for you answer & Best regards > Lars -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
