Hi Mark,
I normally enjoy reading your posts here and usually even agree
with you. Though in this instance, I have to disagree with your
blanket characterization of all current lock screen replacements as
"malware".
I have two apps on the Market that offer lock screen
functionality. Both are highly rated with many thousands of downloads
and hundreds of ratings. One of them "ICE: In Case of Emergency" has
even been credited by several users with saving their lives. Both
apps use only public, documented API's for the lock screen support,
though possibly in ways not intended by the framework engineers. You
can choose to call this malware if you like, but the users of these
apps clearly don't think so.
I look forward to the day that Android provides an "official"
lock screen replacement mechanism, but in the meantime, I make do with
what is available.
Steve
On Jul 19, 11:05 am, Mark Murphy <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 9:56 AM, arnouf <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I don't agree with you mark, because there are some differents apps on
> > market replacing lock screen without change the installed firmware or
> > change root access.
>
> Those are not replacement lock screens. Those use malware techniques.
>
> Google has said on this list, repeatedly, that there are no APIs for
> replacing the lock screen nor any near-term plans to add any.
>
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