How to prevent an application from being uninstalled ?

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How to prevent an application from being uninstalled. How to stop it using code when user want to delete the application ? How can we do that using programming ?

score 1 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:06

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One possible way may be android os customization. Otherwise I think you can't do this. You can see this Stop uninstallation of application

Without customization, you can get a message(using intent) when user try to uninstall a package.

edited May 23 '17 at 12:06

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answered Feb 03 '14 at 07:17

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 03 '14 at 06:58

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Device Administrator Once the application is registered as a Device Administrator, it can't be uninstalled unless its unregistered. This will prevent the app from being uninstalled

answered Feb 03 '14 at 06:58

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user3264399 · Answer 3 · 2014-02-03T07:05:22.680

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You should look at Device Administration .

Once the application is registered as a Device Administrator, it can't be uninstalled unless its unregistered. This will prevent the app from being uninstalled.

You can password protect your application to prevent someone from tampering with the Device Admin features in the app.

Please read this example. It is explaining all the details with sample tutorial.

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answered Feb 03 '14 at 06:59

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sir is there any complete source code for do that with the help of that we stop the un-installation the app.. – liza peter Feb 03 '14 at 07:14
@lizapeter have you seen the link I given in the answer ? – user3264399 Feb 03 '14 at 08:27
@lizapeter, did you try the answer ? – user3264399 Feb 04 '14 at 07:25

How to prevent an application from being uninstalled ?

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