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.
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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 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.
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which one is the trick part?
all i get throu the text is just explanation about the app
but i guess it might help for noob thou,
Are there any sites dedicated specifically for artists on a mobile platform (either IOS or android). Im a long time sketcher but decided to move onto digital medium in the hope that it would improve my options in colouring and painting images. I'm slowly getting used to sketching on my note but was hoping to find tips and guides on drawing on a tablet computer. Most of my searches have given me results on PC/ MAC and wacom stylus using photoshop.
I've started to put together a spreadsheet with a list of all the apps available on android and what their functionality and limitations are. various layer options. resolution. tools etc etc. I'll be uploading it to google docs this evening and sharing it in the hope that I can get others to help me populate it. I've bought a fair few apps now and have been disapointed once I realised it cant do x, y or z. Plus its difficult to keep track of updates that include new features. I'm hoping this table will allow me (and others) to build a suite of apps that best cover their personal requirements and stremeline their workflow.
I cant find any site that is aimed specifically at artists on a mobile platform. Can anyone advise of any? All I see is the odd subforum here or there.
I'm thinking of starting a new site specifically aimed at artists on a mobile platform with links to various resources, reviews on apps, a forum specifically for art related discusion etc etc...
would anyone be interested in helping me? I dont have any experience in putting together sites and am currently looking at a free one on webs.com or something.
One of the things I want to acheive is a comparison chart between all the drawing apps available on android and some more detail behind them other than whats on the play store (like in the attachment).
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My client, which is a company based in NYC is looking for a serious developer to help create their own "closed OS" (think Amazon.. etc).
Knowing how many insanely amazing devs are on XDA I figured i'll give it a shot
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We are looking to design a company only closed system tablet.
The tablet will be used by our employees and should be restricted to company specific apps.
Users will have no access to the full options / settings of the system, will not be able to install anything.. etc.
The system we are looking for:
• Closed OS system that will only run specific apps. Users should have no access to well.. anything but the apps we need on it. (think Amazon tablets).
• Ability to push updates and notifications.
• Ability to remote manage the device.
• Multiple interfaces (2 to start with) – based on the login.
• We are open to device suggestions, whatever will make development easier. 8-10”.
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Shoot me a PM with a little info about yourself and an email you can be reached.
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We need to create an app that would basically play some videos and music. So it will have a media player, besides we need some customization for the screen that contains the player and for the player itself. It will also have the user profile screen where it will show some statistics (like, how many videos the user watched, how many days in a row they used the app, etc., and a calendar that displays the user's activity). Thus the app will also have a backend where all the user data will be stored. There will be also some functionality to choose specific videos depending on one's mood. We don't have a budget to order this work to a developer so we are looking for an app development platform. I saw, there are quite a few platforms available out there. But we need something powerful enough on the one hand but easy to learn on the other hand so that we could finish the app as quickly as possible. Can somebody suggest a platform for this task? It should be able to create apps for both Android and iOS.
you dont need to be good at programming but should have basic programming skills if you just want to make an app for you than you can use code from internet
Thank you for sharing with is this is really good for us .