Come on. No information? No opinion? No advice how to address this issue to the Android development team?
Thanks from Germany Lars On 16 Jun., 08:16, LeveloKment <[email protected]> wrote: > just a small "bump" ... with the hope someone can answer my question. > > On 8 Jun., 09:46, LeveloKment <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hello. > > > I provide a small tool called PatternControl via the market that give > > the users the opportunity to temporary deactivate the Android "lock > > pattern" for a definable amount of time. With other words: After > > entering the pattern, the pattern becomes deactivated for i.e. 5mins > > and re activates it self afterwards. > > > Until now (Android < 2.2) this was only possible by changing the > > settings directly, because there was no related API provided. > > (i.e.with something like > > setBoolean(Settings.System.LOCK_PATTERN_ENABLED, enabled)) > > It is clear that this in not a good way, but from my knowledge there > > was no alternative. > > > My hope was, that Froyo would introduce a new API to handle things > > like that "legally". > > With the new security model of Android 2.2 writing to this kind of > > settings is now disallowed and the PolicyManager class seems just to > > offer password complexity options. > > > So here is my question: > > Is there still any way to temporary deactivate the "lock pattern" as > > long as Android does not support such a delay functions natively? > > > Thanks for you answer & Best regards > > Lars -- 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
