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.
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Do you want to unlock or lock the screen? – Bobby Oct 01 '10 at 15:38
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I want to develop a software that can be used as a unlock screen app. – jjyao Oct 01 '10 at 15:44
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I bet now we can ask this once again ? ) im interested in answer. thank you. – Alexander.Iljushkin Apr 17 '13 at 13:37
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This is not supported by the Android SDK today, sorry.
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1What 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. – jjyao Oct 02 '10 at 14:50
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They usually do it with hacks that are unlikely to work from device to device or Android platform version to version. – adamp Oct 02 '10 at 18:26
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2@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 Oct 03 '10 at 01:02
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I know this question is old. But just to help anyone seeing this post aand getting disheartened, I've found an answer on a comparable question on stackoverflow link, it might help now. There is also a new feature named DayDream in the API 4.2 this could be also interesting. It's a feature.
Hope it helps someone. Cheers :)
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