On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 5:20 AM, Marcin Orlowski <[email protected]> wrote: > I'd love to prevent hardware buttons from working while user runs my > app. Perfectly all of them, > but any number would help :) I am not sure it's doable but maybe I > miss something, hence my > question. For those wondering - "why?" - we got an app that does full > screen colorful animation > and users often run it and hand the phone to their babies as they can > stare at it for hours :) > but the problem is, kids accidentally press hardware buttons (usually > camera trigger, but > also Home or Search - depending on the device model). I'd love to add > the option to block > all keys beside one which can hardly be pressed accidentally.
Your activity can override onKeyDown() and intercept what you can. That will not work for the HOME key in particular. -- Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) http://commonsware.com | http://github.com/commonsguy http://commonsware.com/blog | http://twitter.com/commonsguy _Android Programming Tutorials_ Version 3.0.1 Available! -- 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
