The entire platform is open sourced. Only some Google apps (YouTube, Gmail, etc.) are not open sourced.
What exactly do you find "crippled"? What is missing for you? On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 12:08 PM, zl25drexel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > you guys did not open-source everything. it's pretty hard to figure > out how things work using a cripple code base. > > On Nov 13, 2:14 pm, hackbod <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> 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 asHOMEscreen 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 thehomescreen, look at it >> this way. On android, thehomekey 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 thehome >> 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. :) > > > -- Romain Guy www.curious-creature.org --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
