This is certainly possible, and it's used in quite a few applications: custom roms for demo phones, and roms for companies that don't want their employees installing software.
The first thing is that you don't really want to worry about the Play store: you need to do work to run the play store anyway. Instead, you want to concentrate on actually installing apps. The application process is somewhat complex, but the place you want to concentrate is the package manager itself, and then remove the facilites for installation (if you want be clean about it). PackageManager is abstract and concretezied by Android internal code, that's where you really want to start.. Kris On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 8:53 AM, Rob <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello everybody, > i am a mobile developer which deals with issue "mobile security" (on > android). > Of course there are some coding guidelines and also some device-guidelines. > In advance this issue includes an mobile device management. > > But i still got one problem I cant handle: > how can I prevent installing software ? > Keywords PlayStore, USB, .apk general > > I want to build a locked system which contains only a few apps. It should > not be possible to install new software. > Without any thrid-party-solutions from the PlayStore... I tried some of > this, but nothing was really serios. > > Is this generally possible ? > > thanks in advance for your ideas and feedback > best regards > rob > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Android Security Discussions" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to > [email protected]. > Visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/android-security-discuss?hl=en. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Security Discussions" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-security-discuss?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
