On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 9:46 AM, LeveloKment <[email protected]> wrote: > Come on. > No information? No opinion? No advice how to address this issue to the > Android development team?
This particular functionality belongs in the system layer, not user-space apps. Log an enhancement ticket on b.android.com, and consider writing a patch for the platform that provides the functionality in a privileged app, most likely "Settings.apk". However you decide to implement it, make sure the mechanism is not exposed via the public API, so regular apps cannot take advantage of it like yours used to. > > 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 -- 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
