[android-developers] Make a one app appliance (prevent quitting app)

2013-03-06 Thread Tobiah
I am going to hand out Android phones with an app on it that is geared to a large event. I'd like to launch the app, and cause the user to be unable to quit it. I don't want them messing around with other software on the phone. We did this on our Blackberry app by making the program bring

Re: [android-developers] Make a one app appliance (prevent quitting app)

2013-03-06 Thread Mark Murphy
You are welcome to make it be the home screen. There's the Home sample in the SDK that demonstrates the intent-filter you need on your activity: intent-filter action android:name=android.intent.action.MAIN / category android:name=android.intent.category.HOME/

[android-developers] Make a one app appliance (prevent quitting app)

2012-11-26 Thread Toby
I need to make a one function appliance out of an Android phone for distribution to participants of an event. I want the user to see the app running, but not be able to do anything else. What sort of ways are there to lock down a device so that it appears as a one-app appliance? We retain

Re: [android-developers] Make a one app appliance (prevent quitting app)

2012-11-26 Thread Nikolay Elenkov
On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 6:57 AM, Toby t...@tobiah.org wrote: I need to make a one function appliance out of an Android phone for distribution to participants of an event. I want the user to see the app running, but not be able to do anything else. What sort of ways are there to lock down a