Research 114 Kiosk Mode Android application - Tuong-Nguyen/Android GitHub Wiki

Silo approach

A Kiosk Mode is implemented by disabling various Android features that can be used to leave your app. The following features are affected:

  • The back button
  • The home button
  • The recent apps button
  • The power button
  • The volume buttons

Disadvantage: There are the long list of (very) dirty hacks

Ref: http://www.andreas-schrade.de/2015/02/16/android-tutorial-how-to-create-a-kiosk-mode-in-android/

Example source: https://github.com/andreasschrade/android-kiosk-mode

Screen spinning or Task locking ("Kiosk Mode" in Android Lollipop and Marshmallow)

  • Starting Kiosk Mode: just call startLockTask() in your Activity -> low-security Kiosk Mode, user can easily break-out by holding the Back and Overview keys simultaneously.
  • Install a “device owner” app. The device owner is a new, special kind of device administrator that can grant any app the right to put itself into a Kiosk Mode that the user can’t get out of. -> high-security Kiosk Mode

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