Re: [android-developers] How to disable the installation of device administrator application?

2012-03-10 Thread perumal316
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

[android-developers] How to disable the installation of device administrator application?

2012-03-09 Thread perumal316
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

Re: [android-developers] How to disable the installation of device administrator application?

2012-03-09 Thread Mark Murphy
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?