On Nov 12, 6:38 am, zl25drexel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > please, put that API to replace the lock screen, i will be more than > happy to use that instead of my little hack.
Yes this would be nice to have, but at this point it is a lower priority for the core android team than a lot of other things. If this is something you really want, you could look into adding the feature to the platform. One warning though: doing complete support for replacing the lock screen is going to be really hard, because all of the security and interaction issues it deals with are quite complicated. > I am pretty sure toddler is also disguising as HOME screen because i > tried restarting the app in the onstop method, the desktop will show > up for half of a second before the app is restarted, that's clearly > not the behavior we see in toddler lock. So i think it does the same > thing. No, it does another trick, which the system should also protect against but is not so obviously a flaw. For your idea of forcing your app to be the home screen, look at it this way. On android, the home key serves as our equivalent of Ctrl +Alt+Delete for the user: it is the one thing they can press, which they are guaranteed will get them out of whatever app they are in and back to a known trusted location. By forcing yourself to be the home screen behind the user's back, you are causing the system to violate that trust it has established with the user, stepping down the path of simply being malicious. In fact, this API should never have made it in to the platform -- as I said, this is an old approach we did to preferred applications, it completely conflicts with the current model (which allows the user to select the preferred activity for each action), and as such is a pretty big security hole. It will be removed in a future release. So, uh, thank-you for finding that approach, but please don't use it. :) --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
