Re: [android-developers] How to disable the installation of device administrator application?
Hi Mark, Yes, malware could exploit this but creating own firmware for organisations may be only feasible if they want to issue the phones to the users and firmware update, security patches all needs to be taken care of. Even though device administrator functionality provides some policies that can be used to control the device, by allowing users to uninstall it, makes it bypassable by users. How about using another device admin app to monitor the first app. If the first app gets uninstalled, it will trigger and send a notification to the administrator etc. Not sure, whether this is feasible? Can this be done? Thanks and Regards, Perumal On Friday, March 9, 2012 9:18:09 PM UTC+8, Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) wrote: On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 5:45 AM, perumal316 perumal...@gmail.com wrote: Is there any way this can be prevented? Like a password is required to disable the device administrator? I hope not. Otherwise, malware will use this to block being uninstalled. Can this be done? Is there any other way? Create your own firmware and put the device admin app in the firmware. -- Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) http://commonsware.com | http://github.com/commonsguy http://commonsware.com/blog | http://twitter.com/commonsguy Android 4.0 Programming Books: http://commonsware.com/books -- 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] How to disable the installation of device administrator application?
Hi All, We can create device administrator application which supposedly have escalated privileges to enforce certain policies like password quality, device encryption etc. See: http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/admin/device-admin.html But for example the device is provisioned the first time by the administrator (administrator install the app for user) and the device is passed to the user, it can be easily disabled (Under Settings - Security - Device Administrator) or even uninstalled. Is there any way this can be prevented? Like a password is required to disable the device administrator? Can this be done? Is there any other way? Thanks In Advance, Perumal -- 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] How to disable the installation of device administrator application?
On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 5:45 AM, perumal316 perumal...@gmail.com wrote: Is there any way this can be prevented? Like a password is required to disable the device administrator? I hope not. Otherwise, malware will use this to block being uninstalled. Can this be done? Is there any other way? Create your own firmware and put the device admin app in the firmware. -- Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) http://commonsware.com | http://github.com/commonsguy http://commonsware.com/blog | http://twitter.com/commonsguy Android 4.0 Programming Books: http://commonsware.com/books -- 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
