Hello, I appreciate the help in advance.
I am wanting to give inexpensive tablets to agents who can show potential clients information about my company. On this tablet would be a dedicated video or 2 with links to files and that would be the only thing on the tablet. There would be no benefit to anyone to take the tablet as there would be no additional apps or the ability to change the tablet. Any Suggestions?
Depends. There are guest modes of a lot of Android devices now with 5.0 and 6.0. And you can restrict what apps and functions those guest users can use.
Go to Settings > Users to set the permissions.
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Hi pals
As many apps developers here on XDA what I develop and publish on Android market is device-specific.
(Free and Commercial)
Those apps
- require certain hardware features (like an Audio codec, Super AMOLED screen & driver), often related to additional Kernel features.
- can only support a limited set of devices but also Kernel versions.
And like everyone I'm really annoyed by 1-star comment.
"pure crap, doesn't work on my beloved phone"
Of course, it's not the majority, but its always increasing with the popularity.
It's annoying when its free apps, but when you decide to sell apps and try to give the best service, it becomes really bad.
And people disappointed is really not what you hope when you share your creation.
This is why I'll appreciate some backup from you by leaving a comment on this thread named
Missing filter by Build.DEVICE and ability to contact customers from comments
I propose the idea of filter by Build.DEVICE because it's useful for my app. You need additional filters too right ?
By custom ROM? By Kernel version? Explain you needs
− in this thread on official Market forum of course - writing your comment here is nice too.
We are all used to an unprecedented level of user support here on forums, by the hackers themselves or the community of users. This is really something special.
Its maybe a bit bold to say that, but I'm sure Android Market has a lot to learn from communities like ours in order to improve its consumer satisfaction... so lets show them how to
PS: sorry for inviting people to another page (Google's one) at the occasion.
This is, I guess the best way to be heard by them: by posting on their dedicated tool for requesting features (they'll read)
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I propose the idea of filter by Build.DEVICE because it's useful for my app. You need additional filters too right ?
By custom ROM? By Kernel version? Explain you needs
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Filtering by ROM / kernel is way too specific, but by device is great. I support this proposal.
this would be an incredibly useful feature for developers on XDA. since many hobbyist developers put an app that only works on the device they're developing it for, it would make sense to be able to whitelist or blacklist certain phones so they can be restricted to certain phones.
for instance, I'm sure the developer of RealHDMI (the Droid X HDMI mirroring app) would have loved this feature when people with EVO's were trying to install and were (not shockingly) unable to use it and giving the developer negative feeback. for a community such as this, I can't help but see how this could be an amazing addition to the marketplace.
I don't think its realistic. Google may well come round to a warning message (after accepting permissions perhaps?) saying 'your device is not supported'. This would help in situations such as the Android 2.1 Galaxy S's inability to play ball with Skype, and various games that don't support or fully support some chipsets, as well as your own, very real, problem.
Filtering per device will only pave the way for more fragmentation jibes and claims by Apple/Microsoft that Google are inflating number of apps available. We have to remember Google's priorities: PR > OEMs > Developers > Consumers > Facebook. They *need* to stop any fragmentation claims and *need* to boost app numbers in line with App Store, all to prevent counter PR.
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I don't think its realistic. Google may well come round to a warning message (after accepting permissions perhaps?) saying 'your device is not supported'. This would help in situations such as the Android 2.1 Galaxy S's inability to play ball with Skype, and various games that don't support or fully support some chipsets, as well as your own, very real, problem.
Filtering per device will only pave the way for more fragmentation jibes and claims by Apple/Microsoft that Google are inflating number of apps available. We have to remember Google's priorities: PR > OEMs > Developers > Consumers > Facebook. They *need* to stop any fragmentation claims and *need* to boost app numbers in line with App Store, all to prevent counter PR.
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Its not by ignoring facts and developer needs that you prevent fragmentation.
I work for a college and they are looking to implement tablets for newspaper and magazine reading.
What I'm wondering about is if there is any way to lock it down at all preferably a kiosk mode of sorts where only certain apps can be launched and setting unavailable. Ie no purchases or unauthorized app installs.
I've looked around and most posts anywhere are over a year old. Gears42 keeps coming up but no idea if they are legit. Looked into the ipad too but there is limited enterprise splotions for this. The offer a configuration utility which is nice but as I understand it, it doesn't completely meet these needs.
Any ideas, recommendations or tips? Not looking to install ubuntu or anything like that. Am I stuck waiting to see if windows 8 addresses these features?
Anyone?
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TabPilot to lock down and secure multiple android tablets
killj0y said:
I work for a college and they are looking to implement tablets for newspaper and magazine reading.
What I'm wondering about is if there is any way to lock it down at all preferably a kiosk mode of sorts where only certain apps can be launched and setting unavailable. Ie no purchases or unauthorized app installs.
I've looked around and most posts anywhere are over a year old. Gears42 keeps coming up but no idea if they are legit. Looked into the ipad too but there is limited enterprise splotions for this. The offer a configuration utility which is nice but as I understand it, it doesn't completely meet these needs.
Any ideas, recommendations or tips? Not looking to install ubuntu or anything like that. Am I stuck waiting to see if windows 8 addresses these features?
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TabPilot tablet manager should do exactly what you're looking for. Tablets are centrally controlled via a web-based interface where you can choose which apps to enable on the tablets. Only the selected apps show up. TabPilot replaces the standard launcher with its own that basically turns the device into a kiosk that's locked down for only those apps. The system also lets you distribute apps to groups of tablets so that you don't have to download and install them individually on each device, or for that matter, even have a Google Play account configured on them. It creates a secure environment.
42Gears is one of the leading EMM solution providers in the world. SureLock by 42Gears offers a quick and easy way to lockdown off-the-shelf mobile devices. It can be quickly installed and configured without any programming required.
Hello
I am writing this one for a large number of students so this is not a personal request.
Recently (Turkish) government issued us tablets for our education but they are not really useful for their purpose. As it is an only education device it is pretty restricted so no apps installed, no webpages accesible instead of a few government pages and we can not even turn off wifi. We want to have a privilege escalation to make it useful for at least everyday tasks. Settings are restricted, no developer options,bluetooth,apps management section etc. accesible. And its device manager software blocks USB connections and is responsible for the other restrictions. Any tips for possible bugs to enter unrestricted settings app? Because in older versions of the tablet they were two seperate settings menus - the one that is unrestricted(original) and the one govt. modified to be restricted. In older versions this was possible by small bugs like settings widget or some other apps(e.g entering settings from the calendar app). Those seem to be fixed and we need advices. If required, we will write our hardware as we can learn.
Thanks in advance.
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For an exibition in a museum, we would like to prepare some tablets to show some videos, audiotracks or pictures. The visitors should be able to choose, what they want to watch or listen to by themselves. There should be different options given that we have several themes at the exibition. The important thing is, the users should not be able to open other apps or turn off the tablet by playing around on the item. So we need something, that allows only choosing the material relevant to the exibition and not using the tablet for anything else. Do you have any idea how to prepare the tablets?
Try MobiLock Pro to Lockdown your tablets into kiosk and allow only specific apps that you want to run so that users won't be able to access any other apps and settings present on tablets.
Hi everyone,
Here is a little history first. In 2014 I helped develop a traffic counting app for an engineering buddy. I designed the UI's, the flow charts and wrote the 275-page illustrated, developers manual. The developer had it working in less than 6 weeks, thanks to, as he said, "to the awesome documentation provided". The app has been in use since then and has worked flawlessly on the original 24 tablets I originally purchased for him.
Recently, we have been asked to bring the app to a wider audience so, my question is, "Is there a way to prepare an image of the Android OS containing only the setup we need, and then clone it to the new tablets?" The app is designed as engineering tool and is not listed through Google Play and as such, it does not require most of the bloatware found on the new tablets. The app does require the use of photos, some file management along with network connectivity to send and receive the various data files required and produced by the app.
I have limited experience in rooting, but I have been successful when I done it on my Samsung phones.
As a certified Graphics Designer/Windows and Mac tech/COVID-19 survivor (nearly killed me, literally...LOL), I am aware of the amount of work that goes into aiding people with their "little" projects. Any help or direction in this matter would be deeply appreciated.