My team and I are working on an application that will be distributed on single use tablets in a controlled environment. A part of the functional requirements is to essentially run our app in kiosk mode, which unfortunately Android does not support. We have investigated a few options to achieve quasi-kiosk support with regards to disabling navigation keys, etc., however we're left with one more vector, which is the status bar. We've looked into directly manipulating the "disable()' method in android.app.StatusBarManager through reflection, however we've run into the SecurityException problem (collapsePanels() is insufficient as status bar access is still possible by simply holding down the bar [in Android 4.4.2]). Are there any recommendations for achieving our goals with the existing Android security model, or will we be forced to compile Android from source in order to bypess the SecurityException by using the same certificate?
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