Willem wrote: > My users seem complaining that my lockpattern plugin for locale does > not work anymore. It turns out that the setting LOCK_PATTERN_ENABLED > is moved from Settings.System to Settings.Secure. Since secure > settings are read only my application becomes pretty useless in > android 2.2... > > I understand that the lockpattern setting is a secure setting. But it > was a system setting before.. Isn't strange that the API developers > just changed this?!?
Not particularly. They moved a bunch to Settings.Secure when they set it up back in Android 1.5. I expect they will continue to do this when they determine that it is too risky to leave in Settings.System, either due to malware or user complaints. > Is there a way to write secure > settings anyway? Not for ordinary SDK applications. -- Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) http://commonsware.com | http://github.com/commonsguy http://commonsware.com/blog | http://twitter.com/commonsguy _Android Programming Tutorials_ Version 2.0 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
