I am student and I want to develop a android unlock screen app. I want to know what android api can give me some helps and how can I set my app as the default unlock screen app. Thank you.
What do you mean? You mean that I can't develop my own screen unlock app? But I knew that there are third party screen unlock apps. How they work? Thank you for your help.
Jerome
2010-10-02 14:50:59
They usually do it with hacks that are unlikely to work from device to device or Android platform version to version.
adamp
2010-10-02 18:26:58
@Jerome: "You mean that I can't develop my own screen unlock app?" -- correct." But I knew that there are third party screen unlock apps." -- no, there aren't. There are various pieces of software using malware techniques that prohibit access to their device. They are not official screen locks, which is only possible via firmware modifications.
CommonsWare
2010-10-03 01:02:31
A:
There are lots of third party locker apps on the Market (I'm assuming that's what you want to do). Try out a couple of them, then use logcat (or aLogcat which can be found in the Market itself and used without a computer) to try to see what those applications are doing in the background. Hopefully, from the clues logcat gives you, you should be able to google for more information.
Stephan Branczyk
2010-10-02 00:44:00