[android-developers] Getting notified when a device administrator is enabled/disabled

2011-04-29 Thread Rick Alther
I would like to be notified when a device administrator is enabled/disabled on the device. I've tried listening for ACTION_DEVICE_ADMIN_DISABLED and ACTION_DEVICE_ADMIN_ENABLED, but I'm never receiving a broadcast. The docs state they are sent the device administrator itself, so perhaps they

Re: [android-developers] Getting notified when a device administrator is enabled/disabled

2011-04-29 Thread Dianne Hackborn
No only the device administrator itself is sent these. Of course if you are writing the administrator, you can send your own broadcast as a result. If you are not writing the admin, you should be getting to find out what is going on with it. On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 5:13 PM, Rick Alther

Re: [android-developers] Getting notified when a device administrator is enabled/disabled

2011-04-29 Thread Rick Alther
Thanks for the quick response Diane. No, I am not writing an Admin, nor do I want to. However, I am writing some security tools for our corporation and we require a Device Admin on the device to enforce our security policy. So, one of the things I'm doing is looking to see that they have a

Re: [android-developers] Getting notified when a device administrator is enabled/disabled

2011-04-29 Thread Dianne Hackborn
I don't understand how you can require some device admin. If it isn't your own admin, how can you trust that it is actually doing what you want in any way. If you want to have some controls provided by a device admin, you should write one and it can implement whatever communication with your