you guys did not open-source everything. it's pretty hard to figure out how things work using a cripple code base.
On Nov 13, 2:14 pm, hackbod <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Nov 12, 6:38 am, zl25drexel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > please, put that API to replace the lock screen, i will be more than > > happy to use that instead of my little hack. > > Yes this would be nice to have, but at this point it is a lower > priority for the core android team than a lot of other things. If > this is something you really want, you could look into adding the > feature to the platform. One warning though: doing complete support > for replacing the lock screen is going to be really hard, because all > of the security and interaction issues it deals with are quite > complicated. > > > I am pretty sure toddler is also disguising asHOMEscreen because i > > tried restarting the app in the onstop method, the desktop will show > > up for half of a second before the app is restarted, that's clearly > > not the behavior we see in toddler lock. So i think it does the same > > thing. > > No, it does another trick, which the system should also protect > against but is not so obviously a flaw. > > For your idea of forcing your app to be thehomescreen, look at it > this way. On android, thehomekey serves as our equivalent of Ctrl > +Alt+Delete for the user: it is the one thing they can press, which > they are guaranteed will get them out of whatever app they are in and > back to a known trusted location. By forcing yourself to be thehome > screen behind the user's back, you are causing the system to violate > that trust it has established with the user, stepping down the path of > simply being malicious. In fact, this API should never have made it > in to the platform -- as I said, this is an old approach we did to > preferred applications, it completely conflicts with the current model > (which allows the user to select the preferred activity for each > action), and as such is a pretty big security hole. It will be > removed in a future release. > > So, uh, thank-you for finding that approach, but please don't use > it. :) --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
