Dianne Hackborn, Are you familiar with the KeyguardManager class? Its really cool, I haven't seen anything like it on any other platform and I'm excited to take advantage of it. http://developer.android.com/reference/android/app/KeyguardManager.html
It can take over the Home screen button I've created a bug report. http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=3715 Thanks for your help. On Aug 29, 3:41 pm, Dianne Hackborn <hack...@android.com> wrote: > On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 11:52 AM, GodsMoon <godsm...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I'm writing an app that turns off the keyguard and I would like to > > exitKeyguardSecurely when you user goes back to the home screen. > > This works great when hitting the Home button, but the user can back > > to the home screen without prompt by using the back button (I think > > this is an API bug). > > What API bug? Of course you can press back to go to the home screen. > > What are you doing to determine when the user presses home? Afaik there > isn't really a way to do this since the system completely consumes the home > key. > > Unfortunately, I don't think there is any robust way to do what you want. I > can't imagine an app being able to do this consistently with the current > API... and that should kind-of give you a moment of pause since you are > messing with the lock screen and thus fundamental security of the device. > > -- > Dianne Hackborn > Android framework engineer > hack...@android.com > > Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to > provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such > questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and > answer them. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
