> On the market, there's an application called App Protector, which > seems to effectively block the launching of configured activities > until a password is correctly provided. By default, it blocks access > to itself (not very interesting), Settings, and a few others. I wrote > my own app to launch settings (rather than doing so through the home > screen) and App Protector continued to do the job it claims to do. > > When an activity that is protected is started, App Protector's > password input activity is shown instead. Once the correct password is > provided, the activity that was started comes to the front. > > First -- does anyone know how this app is able to get between the rest > of the system and the activities it protects?
AFAICT, they exploit what I consider to be a security flaw in Android, one I reported a few weeks ago (though I have received no feedback from Google on this). -- Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) http://commonsware.com Android App Developer Books: http://commonsware.com/books.html -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en To unsubscribe, reply using "remove me" as the subject.
