Oh. That is important information! My app, Smart Lock, manipulates the Keyguard a lot. That's the main feature actually. To clarify, who is a device admin?
On Jun 20, 12:22 am, Dianne Hackborn <hack...@android.com> wrote: > Ah. Replacing the lock screen and such is not at this point supported. You > may figure out a hack to do what you want, but we can't guarantee it will > work on future versions of the platform or even across devices. > > The disableKeyguard method was original introduced for very specific > situations such as showing the in-call screen while the device is locked. > It has a lot of problems, and is becoming deprecated -- we have been > introducing new window flags that provide a much better way to interact with > the lock screen for the uses that disableKeyguard was originally done for. > Also you will start to find that the method doesn't work in some > situations. For example starting in Froyo it will not work when a device > admin is requiring the user have a lock screen, since disabling > uncontrollably (not using one of the newer window flags) would conflict with > the security the admin is enforcing. > > > > > > On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 6:10 PM, GodsMoon <godsm...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Sorry, my app disables the keyguard with disableKeyguard(). > > This makes inKeyguardRestrictedInputMode() return true so clicking on > > the home button brings up the lock screen (the special one without the > > Emergency Call button). > > I would like to see this lock screen when pressing the back button. > > > Actually, I just want to know how to bring up that special lock screen > > on demand. I know it comes up with the home button so I was going to > > try to mimic that. > > > Thanks for your help, > > David Shellabarger > > > On Jun 19, 5:40 pm, Dianne Hackborn <hack...@android.com> wrote: > > > I'm not sure I understand... if you want to switch to home from your app > > > (which I am pretty sure the intent you give below is the right way), what > > > would this have to do with the keyguard? If the user is in your app, > > they > > > aren't in the keyguard... I don't understand the connection you have > > > between the two. > > > > On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 11:03 AM, GodsMoon <godsm...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > I would like the back button to work exactly like the home button in > > > > my activity. I know that doesn't sounds like something I would want to > > > > do, but it makes sense in the context of my app. > > > > > I've tried an intent: > > > > Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_MAIN, null); > > > > intent.addCategory(Intent.CATEGORY_HOME); > > > > startActivity(intent); > > > > But this doesn't work the same way. > > > > I've tried super.onKeyDown(KeyEvent.KEYCODE_HOME, event); on the > > > > onKeyDown method and it does nothing. > > > > > They problem is the keyguard acts different when you push the home > > > > button when you have an unlock pattern set. > > > > There is usually a "Emergency Call" button on the unlock pattern > > > > screen, but there is not when you click the home button and you have > > > > dismissed the keyguard. > > > > I would like the back button to behave the same way. > > > > > Would I be able to do this with the instrument class? Is there a > > > > better way to do it? > > > > > -- > > > > 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<android-developers%2Bunsubs > > > > cr...@googlegroups.com><android-developers%2Bunsubs > > cr...@googlegroups.com> > > > > For more options, visit this group at > > > >http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en > > > > -- > > > Dianne Hackborn > > > Android framework engineer > > > hack...@android.com > > > > Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to > > > provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. 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