Re: [Architecture] Have we looked at supporting "Kiosk" mode as part of the proposed "COPE" implementation?

2016-03-06 Thread Prabath Abeysekera
What about Android? On Monday, March 7, 2016, Dilshan Edirisuriya wrote: > This has been implemented at backend as well. When DEP is ready we can > create a UI and test the feature. > > On Sun, Mar 6, 2016 at 9:31 AM, Prabath Abeysekera > wrote: > >> For instance, check [1]. >> >> [1] https://w

Re: [Architecture] Have we looked at supporting "Kiosk" mode as part of the proposed "COPE" implementation?

2016-03-06 Thread Inosh Perera
Hi Prabath, This can be implemented in android the same way the app locker app works. Where you override the back button and make user only use one app. I'm not sure if there is any native API support to achieve the same in Android. [1]. http://www.andreas-schrade.de/2015/02/16/android-tutorial-h

Re: [Architecture] Have we looked at supporting "Kiosk" mode as part of the proposed "COPE" implementation?

2016-03-07 Thread Prabath Abeysekera
I see. Let's look into this a bit more and try to get the same added as part of the "COPE" implementation. I'm sure it will be so catchy to have this in the product. Cheers, Prabath On Mon, Mar 7, 2016 at 10:35 AM, Inosh Perera wrote: > Hi Prabath, > > This can be implemented in android the sam

Re: [Architecture] Have we looked at supporting "Kiosk" mode as part of the proposed "COPE" implementation?

2016-03-08 Thread Prabath Abeysekera
One of the things that we need to specifically focus on is how we're going to let administrators configure this particular mode in EMM. I believe, "Kiosk" can be thought of as an extension of "Locked-down mode", in which one/limited number of applications are allowed to be enforced on the device. S

Re: [Architecture] Have we looked at supporting "Kiosk" mode as part of the proposed "COPE" implementation?

2016-03-08 Thread Prabath Abeysekera
Cool, let's also look at the options that Shan's suggested and go for the most appropriate one!. Cheers, Prabath On Wed, Mar 9, 2016 at 9:56 AM, Inosh Perera wrote: > Hi Prabath, > > Yes, I was thinking the same. Since we are already under research for a > complete lock-down mode in Android, I

Re: [Architecture] Have we looked at supporting "Kiosk" mode as part of the proposed "COPE" implementation?

2016-03-09 Thread Milan Perera
Hi all, This can be easily done (kiosk mode) in devices which have android 5 or higher. This was introduced in Android 5.0 as the *Screen Pining* feature. Please refer below description of the feature which is available in [1]. Android 5.0 introduces a new screen pinning API that lets you tempor