[android-developers] Re: Mimic Home button in software
Oh. That is important information! My app, Smart Lock, manipulates the Keyguard a lot. That's the main feature actually. To clarify, who is a device admin? On Jun 20, 12:22 am, Dianne Hackborn hack...@android.com wrote: Ah. Replacing the lock screen and such is not at this point supported. You may figure out a hack to do what you want, but we can't guarantee it will work on future versions of the platform or even across devices. The disableKeyguard method was original introduced for very specific situations such as showing the in-call screen while the device is locked. It has a lot of problems, and is becoming deprecated -- we have been introducing new window flags that provide a much better way to interact with the lock screen for the uses that disableKeyguard was originally done for. Also you will start to find that the method doesn't work in some situations. For example starting in Froyo it will not work when a device admin is requiring the user have a lock screen, since disabling uncontrollably (not using one of the newer window flags) would conflict with the security the admin is enforcing. On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 6:10 PM, GodsMoon godsm...@gmail.com wrote: Sorry, my app disables the keyguard with disableKeyguard(). This makes inKeyguardRestrictedInputMode() return true so clicking on the home button brings up the lock screen (the special one without the Emergency Call button). I would like to see this lock screen when pressing the back button. Actually, I just want to know how to bring up that special lock screen on demand. I know it comes up with the home button so I was going to try to mimic that. Thanks for your help, David Shellabarger On Jun 19, 5:40 pm, Dianne Hackborn hack...@android.com wrote: I'm not sure I understand... if you want to switch to home from your app (which I am pretty sure the intent you give below is the right way), what would this have to do with the keyguard? If the user is in your app, they aren't in the keyguard... I don't understand the connection you have between the two. On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 11:03 AM, GodsMoon godsm...@gmail.com wrote: I would like the back button to work exactly like the home button in my activity. I know that doesn't sounds like something I would want to do, but it makes sense in the context of my app. I've tried an intent: Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_MAIN, null); intent.addCategory(Intent.CATEGORY_HOME); startActivity(intent); But this doesn't work the same way. I've tried super.onKeyDown(KeyEvent.KEYCODE_HOME, event); on the onKeyDown method and it does nothing. They problem is the keyguard acts different when you push the home button when you have an unlock pattern set. There is usually a Emergency Call button on the unlock pattern screen, but there is not when you click the home button and you have dismissed the keyguard. I would like the back button to behave the same way. Would I be able to do this with the instrument class? Is there a better way to do 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 android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.comandroid-developers%2Bunsubs cr...@googlegroups.comandroid-developers%2Bunsubs cr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -- Dianne Hackborn Android framework engineer hack...@android.com Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and answer them. -- 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.comandroid-developers%2Bunsubs cr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -- Dianne Hackborn Android framework engineer hack...@android.com Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and answer them. -- 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
Re: [android-developers] Re: Mimic Home button in software
On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 11:57 AM, GodsMoon godsm...@gmail.com wrote: Oh. That is important information! My app, Smart Lock, manipulates the Keyguard a lot. That's the main feature actually. To clarify, who is a device admin? New device policy management APIs allow developers to write 'device administrator' applications that can control security features of the device, such as the minimum password strength, data wipe, and so on. Users can select the administrators that are enabled on their devices. http://developer.android.com/reference/android/app/admin/package-summary.html http://developer.android.com/resources/samples/ApiDemos/src/com/example/android/apis/app/DeviceAdminSample.html That's all that is written about it at this time, that I have been able to find. -- Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) http://commonsware.com | http://github.com/commonsguy http://commonsware.com/blog | http://twitter.com/commonsguy _The Busy Coder's Guide to Android Development_ Version 3.1 Available! -- 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
Re: [android-developers] Re: Mimic Home button in software
There should be a blog post at some point; this is used to implement the new corp exchange support for example. So if you are using an exchange server that requires a lock pattern, the old API to hide the lock screen will not work. On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 9:04 AM, Mark Murphy mmur...@commonsware.comwrote: On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 11:57 AM, GodsMoon godsm...@gmail.com wrote: Oh. That is important information! My app, Smart Lock, manipulates the Keyguard a lot. That's the main feature actually. To clarify, who is a device admin? New device policy management APIs allow developers to write 'device administrator' applications that can control security features of the device, such as the minimum password strength, data wipe, and so on. Users can select the administrators that are enabled on their devices. http://developer.android.com/reference/android/app/admin/package-summary.html http://developer.android.com/resources/samples/ApiDemos/src/com/example/android/apis/app/DeviceAdminSample.html That's all that is written about it at this time, that I have been able to find. -- Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) http://commonsware.com | http://github.com/commonsguy http://commonsware.com/blog | http://twitter.com/commonsguy _The Busy Coder's Guide to Android Development_ Version 3.1 Available! -- 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.comandroid-developers%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -- Dianne Hackborn Android framework engineer hack...@android.com Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and answer them. -- 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
[android-developers] Re: Mimic Home button in software
Sorry, my app disables the keyguard with disableKeyguard(). This makes inKeyguardRestrictedInputMode() return true so clicking on the home button brings up the lock screen (the special one without the Emergency Call button). I would like to see this lock screen when pressing the back button. Actually, I just want to know how to bring up that special lock screen on demand. I know it comes up with the home button so I was going to try to mimic that. Thanks for your help, David Shellabarger On Jun 19, 5:40 pm, Dianne Hackborn hack...@android.com wrote: I'm not sure I understand... if you want to switch to home from your app (which I am pretty sure the intent you give below is the right way), what would this have to do with the keyguard? If the user is in your app, they aren't in the keyguard... I don't understand the connection you have between the two. On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 11:03 AM, GodsMoon godsm...@gmail.com wrote: I would like the back button to work exactly like the home button in my activity. I know that doesn't sounds like something I would want to do, but it makes sense in the context of my app. I've tried an intent: Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_MAIN, null); intent.addCategory(Intent.CATEGORY_HOME); startActivity(intent); But this doesn't work the same way. I've tried super.onKeyDown(KeyEvent.KEYCODE_HOME, event); on the onKeyDown method and it does nothing. They problem is the keyguard acts different when you push the home button when you have an unlock pattern set. There is usually a Emergency Call button on the unlock pattern screen, but there is not when you click the home button and you have dismissed the keyguard. I would like the back button to behave the same way. Would I be able to do this with the instrument class? Is there a better way to do 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 android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.comandroid-developers%2Bunsubs cr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -- Dianne Hackborn Android framework engineer hack...@android.com Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and answer them. -- 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
[android-developers] Re: Mimic Home button in software
special lockscreen looks like this btw http://nightshadelabs.appspot.com/static/lockscreen.png On Jun 19, 9:10 pm, GodsMoon godsm...@gmail.com wrote: Sorry, my app disables the keyguard with disableKeyguard(). This makes inKeyguardRestrictedInputMode() return true so clicking on the home button brings up the lock screen (the special one without the Emergency Call button). I would like to see this lock screen when pressing the back button. Actually, I just want to know how to bring up that special lock screen on demand. I know it comes up with the home button so I was going to try to mimic that. Thanks for your help, David Shellabarger On Jun 19, 5:40 pm, Dianne Hackborn hack...@android.com wrote: I'm not sure I understand... if you want to switch to home from your app (which I am pretty sure the intent you give below is the right way), what would this have to do with the keyguard? If the user is in your app, they aren't in the keyguard... I don't understand the connection you have between the two. On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 11:03 AM, GodsMoon godsm...@gmail.com wrote: I would like the back button to work exactly like the home button in my activity. I know that doesn't sounds like something I would want to do, but it makes sense in the context of my app. I've tried an intent: Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_MAIN, null); intent.addCategory(Intent.CATEGORY_HOME); startActivity(intent); But this doesn't work the same way. I've tried super.onKeyDown(KeyEvent.KEYCODE_HOME, event); on the onKeyDown method and it does nothing. They problem is the keyguard acts different when you push the home button when you have an unlock pattern set. There is usually a Emergency Call button on the unlock pattern screen, but there is not when you click the home button and you have dismissed the keyguard. I would like the back button to behave the same way. Would I be able to do this with the instrument class? Is there a better way to do 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 android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.comandroid-developers%2Bunsubs cr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -- Dianne Hackborn Android framework engineer hack...@android.com Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and answer them. -- 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
Re: [android-developers] Re: Mimic Home button in software
Ah. Replacing the lock screen and such is not at this point supported. You may figure out a hack to do what you want, but we can't guarantee it will work on future versions of the platform or even across devices. The disableKeyguard method was original introduced for very specific situations such as showing the in-call screen while the device is locked. It has a lot of problems, and is becoming deprecated -- we have been introducing new window flags that provide a much better way to interact with the lock screen for the uses that disableKeyguard was originally done for. Also you will start to find that the method doesn't work in some situations. For example starting in Froyo it will not work when a device admin is requiring the user have a lock screen, since disabling uncontrollably (not using one of the newer window flags) would conflict with the security the admin is enforcing. On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 6:10 PM, GodsMoon godsm...@gmail.com wrote: Sorry, my app disables the keyguard with disableKeyguard(). This makes inKeyguardRestrictedInputMode() return true so clicking on the home button brings up the lock screen (the special one without the Emergency Call button). I would like to see this lock screen when pressing the back button. Actually, I just want to know how to bring up that special lock screen on demand. I know it comes up with the home button so I was going to try to mimic that. Thanks for your help, David Shellabarger On Jun 19, 5:40 pm, Dianne Hackborn hack...@android.com wrote: I'm not sure I understand... if you want to switch to home from your app (which I am pretty sure the intent you give below is the right way), what would this have to do with the keyguard? If the user is in your app, they aren't in the keyguard... I don't understand the connection you have between the two. On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 11:03 AM, GodsMoon godsm...@gmail.com wrote: I would like the back button to work exactly like the home button in my activity. I know that doesn't sounds like something I would want to do, but it makes sense in the context of my app. I've tried an intent: Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_MAIN, null); intent.addCategory(Intent.CATEGORY_HOME); startActivity(intent); But this doesn't work the same way. I've tried super.onKeyDown(KeyEvent.KEYCODE_HOME, event); on the onKeyDown method and it does nothing. They problem is the keyguard acts different when you push the home button when you have an unlock pattern set. There is usually a Emergency Call button on the unlock pattern screen, but there is not when you click the home button and you have dismissed the keyguard. I would like the back button to behave the same way. Would I be able to do this with the instrument class? Is there a better way to do 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 android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.comandroid-developers%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.comandroid-developers%2Bunsubs cr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -- Dianne Hackborn Android framework engineer hack...@android.com Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and answer them. -- 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.comandroid-developers%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -- Dianne Hackborn Android framework engineer hack...@android.com Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and answer them. -- 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
